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This is one of the better shots of my panel in N58596 after I painted it light gray.  Typically shots in the cabin would be dark and difficult to see much detail.  The light gray lightened up the panel and the interior of the front cockpit.  It looks clean and new.  A feat for a 1973 aircraft without a major interior overhaul.

Unfortunately, these panels are likely sitting in some aircraft graveyard after the new owner crashed and totalled the airplane just 6 weeks after I delivered it.  For many small plane pilots, owning an airplane is a very personal thing that you become attached to.  Most often when you'd be flying it, you would be listening carefully for any sound that seemed out of the ordinary and feeling for any movement that didn't feel normal.  To own a small airplane and pay a significant amount to maintain it, we can tend to personally connect with it like a living, breathing thing.  And, hopefully, it will maintain that living and breathing while we're flying it!  So, when you've become attached to an aircraft it is certainly difficult to sell it.  You can see why it is almost devastating to learn that the aircraft you took so much care to maintain and fly safely has been destroyed.  Human life, of course, is the most important in such a case... but after that it pains one to see their "baby" ripped apart and sitting in some airplane graveyard.