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My Onex kit is scheduled to be delivered to me the first week of November. Would you either recommend Wick's or Aircraft Spruce to purchase my hardware kits from?
My e-mail is surfly@cfl.rr.com so please feel at ease to e-mail me if you care to
Thank you, Sherm

Sherm,

I sent an email with some info to consider.

Sherm, look for my suggestions in your email.

Paul
Onex 76

If you want to get better pricing, you can source each item individually, you will save a good bit over any of the hardware kits. Even just comparing best price per item from only Wicks and Spruce will show a substantial savings. Airward.com also offers a hardware kits in several different flavors for the Onex, people have commented on them favorably in the past.

If I had to do it over I would definitely go with AirWard.I can only speak for the Aircraft Spruce kit and there was a lot missing which I have had to buy as I become aware .Weather that is the fault of Sonex not keeping them updated or AS not keeping up with Sonex updates I have no idea .I'm just certain that AirWard is complete and up to date.
I'm sure those that purchased the AW kit can confirm or deny this.
Cheers,
Mike

I opened my A/S kit months after I bought it. So far I was missing a few items. I got a tailwheel kit for a Sonex and another for a Waiex. Not sure what I will do with the other tailwheel. Whoever you buy from don't blindly order.

Bryan Cotton wrote:I opened my A/S kit months after I bought it. So far I was missing a few items. I got a tailwheel kit for a Sonex and another for a Waiex. Not sure what I will do with the other tailwheel. Whoever you buy from don't blindly order.

This happened to me as well... they had 3 different hardware kits for landing gear configurations, and I ended up with 2 of them and extra parts. I was able to return the duplicate parts without issue (although I kept the extra tailwheel). It appears they have since removed the extra landing gear hardware kit.

As far as the A/S kit goes, I think so far I was only missing a single part that should have been shipped. However the kits are based on the hardware lists provided by Sonex, and those hardware lists themselves are a bit out of date. Most everything else that has been "missing" from my hardware kit is also missing from the Sonex hardware list, so I don't blame A/S.