I wasn't happy with the fitment of the flooring in the plane. I removed what I had previously installed and put in new pieces. Of course, I then had to take them out to fit some additional pieces for the spar connector plates. These were some new tapered bushings that a buddy manufactured for me. Each wing is held in place with two large pins. Each pin passes through the spar connector plates and two tapered bushings that fit into the machined aluminum fuselage frame truss. Doing the math, that means there are 8 tapered bushings required. Unfortunately, only 5 survived the accident and subsequent years of storage and shipment. My buddy also manufactured one of the aluminum end caps that was missing. I finished this piece up by rounding some of the ends and primed it.
I installed all the bushings and installed some bolts and spacers that hold the fuselage frame truss together. Once that was done, I was able to permanently connect the front and rear control sticks. This required disassembling the yokes a few times to ensure that everything was properly engaged.
It doesn't look like much was done since last entry, but that's because it was a lot of back and forth. Progress is not always in the forward direction.