I'm counting this as 10 hours because I took a lot of time researching and scheming the best way to go about moving the fuselage the 10 miles or so to the hangar. I know a lot of people have hired a roll on wrecker to do this, but was extremely uneasy with the idea of relinquishing control of my very expensive baby to somebody else. I explored the idea of using a car hauler trailer but soon discovered that for all the low ones with a dovetail, the inner fenders were only about 82" wide. My main gear to the outside of the axle nuts is 86". I thought about loading it backward, but there was a pretty good chance that I might have to either crawl into the tailcone to remove a comm antenna or risk dragging it as I went up the ramps. I'd have to build a center ramp for the tail wheel as well as cover the heavy ribs on the main ramps with plywood because they're a ladder style made from spaced out angle iron for cars and skid steers and stuff. If I loaded it forward I'd have to devise some method of getting the mains past the fender wells. Compounding all these issues is the fact that without the wings and empennage on it's extremely nose heavy. Overall, I decided that there was just too much stuff to try to modify to make it work. Keith Rea recommended Happy Hooker towing here in Wichita, so ultimately I choked back my inner control freak and gave them a call. They were very accommodating and it turns out they've moved quite a few airplanes. The Driver, Durawn, was super cool and had it loaded up and secured in 20 minutes or so. He was able to drop the tilt bed within just a couple of inches of the garage door which was awesome because then we didn't have to worry about it running away down my sloped driveway. He pulled it up with the winch while I steered from the back with a tow bar. Even with that giant truck we only had about 8" or so of extra width outside of each main. He had it offloaded at the hangar is about 10 minutes. Honestly, the thing that took the longest in the whole process was me doing a 16 point turn in the garage prior to him arriving in order to get it pointed in the right direction for rolling it up on the truck. This move has been the single most stressful part of the whole project. I had visions of it falling off the truck or tipping over on its nose or something. This was made worse by the fact that Van's went into chapter 11 bankruptcy a couple days ago. Selfishly, I had the lingering thought that if I had some kind of oopsie it wouldn't just be a matter of rework, it might be months before I could hope to get replacement parts. I feel bad for having that concern because in the bigger picture, the entire community is on edge and VAF is full of people who are potentially losing thousands of dollars in deposits or even full payments for kits that haven't shipped yet. Anyway, it all went smoothly with no problems at all. Now it's pretty much just a matter of putting all the big chunks together, pulling wires for the lights, final fiberglass on the tips, etc. etc. etc. Actually, now that I think about it, the list is pretty long, but it's all very exciting because each step is a finish step, not something that lead to the next in a never-ending series of baby steps. Yay!