Where to get the best paint job?

[DOC]

Interested in a new paint job.  Any recommendations?  From Tennessee

[TWinter]

Mena Aircraft Painting in Mena, Arkansas. There are also about three or four other paint shops at the same field. I was very pleased with what they did on my E.

[DOC]

Nice looking.  Love that scheme.  That was the same scheme that caught my eye on a paint scheme website.  Would you mind sending a pic to my personal email that I could blow up?  jmilholm@bellsouth.net

[DonMuncy]

+1 for Mena Aircraft Painting. Doug did my plane in 2004 and it still looks good. Very good quality for a reasonable price.

[TWinter]

Will do..Doug and Rhonda Blair are the owners. Great job. Took about three weeks.

I'll get a few pics sent from my work computer in the morning. I also have a few in the Mooney Space Gallery.

[Parker_Woodruff]

Hawk Aircraft Painting in Tampa did mine and fantom's

Located at VDF

[M016576]

Just for continuity's sake, and centralizing a thread- anyone have any recommendations for the west coast?

[TWinter]

Jolie was very happy with hers and it was painted on the west coast. You might PM or check with her.

[Bennett]

Interested in a new paint job. Any recommendations? From Tennessee

California is a long way off, but The good folks at ArtCraft at Santa Maria have painted quite a few Mooneys. I found them to be very easy to work with, even taping and re-taping designs with me for an entire Sunday. We ended up with five different colors, mostly metallics, and some of the stripes were airbrushed simply because I like the effect. All the control surfaces were removed and very thoroughly painted and reinstalled by an A&P on their staff. Balance was checked where necessary, and I couldn't be more pleased. They even put up with me dropping in unexpectedly a number of times during the process of striping, masking, taping, painting the various colors, and final polishing and detailing. They sent out some of the metal parts for rechroming, and the final results were exactly what I wanted. Highly recommended.

[fantom]

Any of the shops mentioned do good work, with none particularly better than the other.

Put everything you want on paper and consider using a reasonable service like Brian Smith in TX to assist you. Then check up on the job whenever you can.

It is silly to fly half way across the country, in either direction, to have your plane painted. It will also make any follow up work you want done, just that more painful. The closer to home, the better, and do some digging on whatever shops you zero in on.

[Z W]

Crider Aircraft Painting at Mena, Arkansas did ours.  Great work, great people, on time, on budget.  Would highly recommend them.

[kmyfm20s]

Is there any truth to paint job being better and less expensive in some states because of EPA, sales tax, regulations, ect? Living in California here this all the time and I would love to here if from anyone that really knows.