Reborn in the U.S.A. Bring your tired, your weary 172s to Wichita for a total makeover B Y J I L L W. TA L L M A N | P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y M I K E F I Z E R AIRPLANE NUMBER 4 IS PARKED in a maintenance hangar at Yingling Aviation in Wichita, Kansas, resembling something a model airplane builder started and then forgot about. Everything from the firewall forward is gone. The fuselage sits on blocks. In the torn-up cabin, a Yingling technician is stripping out avionics from the 1977 Cessna 172N's panel. www.aopa.org/pilot AOPA PILOT | 81http://www.aopa.org/pilot