That was some of the best $260 I've spent on a bike - place charged me that to replace the air filter and replace the left instrument cluster (With the turn signal switch)...
And your old filter looks to have been in much nicer condition than mine was!

...hope getting it all back together goes smoothly!
Your filter was what prompted me to buy a filter back in the fall, was just waiting on the cold weather!
I have to peel off a bunch of stuff to get to mine (it's where yours is) but I
don't have to deal with an airbag. I never thought of that. I've done all
the work and modifications on my 1800 myself, but if it had an airbag
Ida probably have set it off in my face or something...
My car's seats are full of air bags and now that the driver's seat is
showing wear I'm stuck with more than $1000 to get it recovered.
-Mike "gonna keep on showing wear for a while..."
I thought having the airbag was kool and it couldn’t hurt, I believe I would pass on the airbag in the future. Lots of warnings in the owners manual about not disconnecting anything connected to the airbag.
I changed my wing's air filter in June of 2019 (so it says in the maintenance log) and I need to change it again. I have been putting about 40,000 plus miles on each filter.
Use Fred's discs. Just reviewed the process yesterday to refresh my memory. It's a bit of work but I was so very pleased when I did if the first time and everything worked when I got done.

I have Fred’s disc’s and I watched them this morning but it was not an airbag model so some significant differences.