well, I can't take credit for the original, now... as I said in OP, I found it... I'm just trying to get her workin in FSX reasonably decent.. first problem was that the contact points were all loused up, and then I began work on the prop and such.. this was originally an FS2002 model if I recall correctly that had minimal things done to the model to make it workable in FS2004 before SimTech went belly up and released it as freeware... The original repaint was done by David Green, and I am just working his files to see if I can get the bird in decent shape for use in FSX before CR-1 get's it done up for sale, lol... CR-1 bought all the right to the old SimTech models, and has been working to update and re-release them.. I have the CR-1 Beech 18, and it uses all the same textures and such as the old SimTech one did, but the mdl has been redone to FSX standards, and I think they redid the whole VC... So all I am doing is making her more "presentable" and like Chris, I am pretty cranky about details, lol..