The first I did on the aircraft in the new location, was installing the horizontal stabilizer.
I carefully aligned it by measuring from the firewall to the stabilizer tips, then clamped it down and drilled the bolt holes.

Then I clamped the vertical stabilizer in place and drilled the bolt holes.

After matchdrilling the forward spar attach plate, I primed it and riveted it to the stabilizer.

I reinstalled the vertical stabilizer…

Next I bolted on the rudder. It is starting to look more like an airplane now! 😀

The gaps between the fuselage and horizontal stab are closed by 2 aluminum fairings below and a fiberglass fairing on top.
I trimmed the alu farings so there was 1/16″ gap to the stab. I plan on installing a small rubber fillet seal after paint.

The empennage fairing actually wasn’t as bad a fit as I had feared.

I started by marking and trimming the upper edge..

Then marking the forward edge.

After a lot of trimming and matchdrilling, I am almost happy with the result.

There is still a little too much gap at the horizontal stab leading edges, but I wall fill these later.

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