After the flight, last weekend, with Dr. Feelgood and his honeys I mentioned that the plane and hangar were no invite to go flying. Offended at first but slowly seeing that I was right. I offered to clean the plane and hangar. Pulled out our agendas and decided on this day, Tuesday morning at 9 am. The previous day I had gathered micro fibre sponges, washing cloths, gardening hose, high pressure cleaner, extension cords, vacuum cleaner, buckets and all the mild cleaning products I had in the house. The Rolls Royce pulled up at the restaurant, Dr. brought his gardener to help out too, nice, three of us then. Armed with one bucket and two sponges, not sure what he planned to clean ! Surprised at all of the equipment I was loading into his trunk, he kept saying “ ah, we don’t need that !” Ignoring his pleas all of it made it on board.

OO-VHB, a Piper Arrow 4 T-Tail is hangared next to the tower at  EBKT. Sturdy white metal hangars until opening the automatic sliding door. Then you enter a gray dust web filled hangar with a gray n yellow aircraft. Wasn’t it white n yellow ? Well you get my drift, a make-over is way past due !  Hours later we finished the aircraft, amazed at the filthy black water we were stepping in. We pulled the plane outside and time to take the hangar for a wash down. This is were the high pressure cleaner came in. Anyway the plane and hangar are white again and web ridden. Only thing missing ? A red carpet from the hangar door to the right wing of the aircraft ;-)

QUESTION: What products do you  use to clean and wax your aircraft ?

                     I was afraid to use aggressive cleaners to de-grease and de-tar plane.

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I’m off to the Ilse of Wight, UK on a IFR flight Wednesday, check back for story !