Painting a Helicopter
Painting a Helicopter
The school I used to work for painted this Enstrom a while back to match the company colors. Here is a sequence of it being painted:
At this point I think the entire base coat of white had already been applied. The entire helicopter has now been masked so that Pat can put the stripes and tail numbers on:
Now the tail numbers have been applied:
Now the helicopter has be re-masked. The parts where you can see the white undercoat is where the blue and maroon are going to be applied. The blue and maroon are broken up into thinner stripes with some tape…
The maroon strip being applied to the nose:
The stripes have been painted on, and the doors and engine cowling are being put back on:
Blades being put back on:
Doing a final maintenance runup:
The finished paint job:
