Mocked up vertical stabilizer into place and noticed elevator horn was impacting vertical stabilizer skin and preventing full motion. Removed vertical stabilizer and trimmed skin at base. Continued to file elevator horn to ensure full 25 degrees of pitch up. Inserted elevator pushrod into fuselage before getting too far. Set elevator hinge pins all the way. Did not install cotter pins yet. Aligned tail using laser level to ensure vertical stabilizer was centered on fuselage. Temporarily installed rudder to check straightness of stabilizer and squareness to fuselage. Temporarily installed bolts through tail spar then updrilled forward mount holes for AN4 hardware. Removed vertical tail and rudder, deburred mounting holes and installed nut plates for AN4 hardware.
Hours Worked: 4.37
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