Mullingar man builds two-seat aircraft in garden shed and prepares for first flight

David Murray with the plane he built himself from a Savannah kit, a project that took two and a half years in his garden shed before being moved to the FunFly Aerosports hangar in Offaly for final checks. Picture: Chani Anderson

When David Murray first told friends he had built an aircraft in his garden shed, they assumed the mechanical engineer was referring to a model toy plane.

Two and a half years later, they are seeing just how much the Mullingar man has achieved as he prepares to take to the skies with the flying machine next week.