Paint looks good from the picture. That should be a ’76 year model like my -1B. The way to tell is if it has the square inlet nose bowl.
Consider putting back in the canopy tracking cables. You have the short canopy rails and should have the pullies up at the firewall and behind the canopy. This keeps the canopy straight and prevents it from binding when opening and closing, thus reducing stress on the canopy. They were removed due to a Factory Service Bulletin resulting from issues at flight schools with the cables coming loose and binding the canopy. It was never an AD. Just check the tension on the cables periodically. It has been about 20 years since I reinstalled them on mine.
Good luck with your project. I am still working on my AA-1 Yankee restoration.

Looks like you are going to town with your restoration. Keep posting pictures!

Did you have debonding issues with your control surfaces? My AA-1B SN 0632 has never had any, but it is post Purple Glue. Yours might be at the tail end of the Purple Glue use.

When we were cleaning out Ken Blackman’s shop I found a brand new never installed top AA-1 cowl. I was not willing to let that go to Roscoe on the container we were loading everything else into wanting to make sure it stayed pristine. Reluctantly few months later I drove it back to Roscoe, well rapped. Roscoe sold it last year, hope it went to a good home.

I just made a score on some parts from an AA-1A being parted out in Arizona. The airplane went on it’s nose, the nose gear collapsed. I don’t know the entire story but the lower cowl is crunched. They said the top cowl is OK, but I would want to see detailed pictures.
You can contact them at:

Arizona Air Salvage
3233 W. Yuma St.
Phoenix, AZ. 85009

Office Land Line: 602-354-7405

Looks like fun. can’t wait to actually start working on mine. AA1-A #0289. Waiting on a FAA 12 week backlog on paperwork…

~J~

I am headed down to Arizona next week to pick up what I bought. If you want eyes on items you are interested in, let me know.

Yes I am driving. We are targeting to be at the salvage yard on Wednesday. I will send you a private message with my contact info. Send me an email with yours.

Your making great progress!

Watching your restoration with interest as I have N1479R, s/n AA1B-0579. I’d be interested in knowing where you are acquiring the seat belts / harnesses ’cause I’m seeking new ones!

If you have your old ones your best bet is to send them in to one of several companies that will clean up all the hardware and put new webbing on them. They still must have the FAA certification tags on them. I think they run around $150 – 200 per seat for the lap and shoulder belt.
If you are missing belts or are missing the tags, then you might contact Fletchair. They use to have new old stock belts (that due to age would need to be rewebbed) and I know they have boxes of used belts that could be “cores” for rewebbing.

I own AA1B-0632 (N1632R). At my old airport there was also AA1B-0633 (N1633R). We use to go flying together and when we were both in the pattern at the same time the tower controller had a hard time keeping us straight.

Hi y’all,
Just trailered home our new Father/Son project. N9901L serial #0201. Hasn’t flown since 2006 ish. Last annualed in 2010. I’ll try to attach a picture or two. Taking it to my mechanic tomorrow to help me get organized.
I know the center spar is no good. Have deposit on one in Ohio. Need to start a parts list. I have so many questions to get answered. Like how to strip paint and mot effect the bonding? Who has the tailwheel conversion STC, the aux fuel STC and the larger engine STC?
I need to really make sure my wings are good to go. I’m worried about the wing Spare since the center was corroded. Tanks were completely empty and the one tank (right) that I put fuel in to start it leaked. My stepson is 16 and soled our Cessna 140 last month. I would love to have this completed by the time he graduates high school and the plane will be celebrating its 50th birthday.

Glenn, Donah and Dawson

I guess I can only send one pic at a time depending on the file size. Jere is one from yesterday

Maybe this one will work.

Glenn

Another father/son project located out of West Michigan. Thanks for all the info posted here. Learning from you guys as we work on putting this aa1a back in the air.

Looking good. What did you use to bond the windshield to the bow?
Interesting fixture attached to the engine mount extrusions, I assume this allows the fuselage to be rotated upside down?

The last time I changed the canopy on my AA-1B (some 20 years ago) they were at that time recommending to use a product similar to Proseal to bond to the bow, as the original Dow Corning primers (1200 & 1205) became very hard to obtain.
I did the install with that material and after about 5 hours the canopy started debonding from the bow. I removed the canopy and cleaned up everything. I was living in the SF Bay Area and there was a Dow Corning distributor that could get me the primers, but only in pint size containers. It only takes a couple of ounces of each to do a windshield. I went ahead on purchased the primers and using the Dow 732 RTV I rebonded the windshield. It was not cheap to do that, but 20 years later the canopy has never debonded. My windshield was last done some 25 years ago, using the same Dow Corning process.
If I can still get those primers, I am inclined to go that route when I install the canopy and windshield on the Yankee project.

I don’t recall that I used a primer with the Proseal, nor was any mentioned in the instructions in those days. Hopefully that will make the difference.