Bushcat Build Log

  • Centre console and floorboard installation

    Aircraft: Bushcat 19-2226
    Task Date: 07/09/2025
    Builder: Malcolm Hardy & Thomas Hardy
    Category: Fuselage
    Section: 55.2
    Hours: 2.5 hrs
    Task: Tom helped me with fitting the floor boards.They needed trimming to be able to install them and to get them to sit flat on the fuselage tubes.More work is needed to enlarge some of the holes for the …  More...

  • Hydraulic brake system installation

    Aircraft: Bushcat 19-2226
    Task Date: 07/09/2025
    Builder: Malcolm Hardy & Thomas Hardy
    Category: Controls
    Section: 56
    Hours: 1.5 hrs
    Task: Tom helped me to finish hooking up the brake lines in preparation to install the floor boards.We had trouble  putting the clear protection tube over the brake lines due to friction between the nylon …  More...

  • Hydraulic brake system installation

    Aircraft: Bushcat 19-2226
    Task Date: 06/09/2025
    Builder: Malcolm Hardy
    Category: Controls
    Section: 56
    Hours: 1.5 hrs
    Task: Ed helped me to install the brake lines.A couple of the brass olives were very difficult to thread onto the nylon brake lines.I have ordered some extra brass olives.

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  • Choke cable splitter installation

    Aircraft: Bushcat 19-2226
    Task Date: 06/09/2025
    Builder: Malcolm Hardy
    Category: Controls
    Section: 49
    Hours: 1 hr
    Task: Ed helped me to install the choke assembly.We had to remove the endcaps of the cables to get the cables through the grommets in the firewall.

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