Aircraft cleaning

[Guest burbles1]

Just chasing some info on an idea I had recently. Who would be interested in an aircraft cleaning service? I'm talking about mainly the outside - clean the bugs off, remove grease/mud from the belly and wheels. I'm guessing cleaning the windscreen is part of the preflight, so that may be unnecessary. Perhaps some vacuuming and dash panel and trim cleaning inside. How much would you pay and how frequently would you need the service?

 

Or do you always have the time to clean your aircraft when needed?

 

 

[dazza 38]

Hi mate, if its anything like car cleaning.There no money in it.People have done it as a business from time to time, but with money tight in aviation, i dont think it would be a profitable business, i mean it is profitable but small money.Alot of schools have a aspiring young students and pilots that will do that work for free.

 

 

[XP503]

I have been doing it every weekend and spare moment of my life since I was 12, you do it for the love of aeroplanes mate and that's it. Mind you, by being the Boonah hangar rat I learnt to fly for free and many other perks. Btw most aircraft owners enjoy washing their own machines.

 

 

[winsor68]

If you could get the contract on cleaning airline aircraft you could do ok.

 

I reckon I have done several thousand tidy ups on airline aircraft in the last 5 years... Airline Aircraft are parked at airstrips all over Australia... there is plenty of money in cleaning those if you can get a contract, do 50 of them a night, and pay your monkeys peanuts. Sadly I am still one of the monkeys.

 

 

[Kenchhidu]

I think there can be great knowledge involved in being a good detailer (I done car detailing for 6 years) but it's a very under appreciated skill. The most I progressed was working at Mercedes... Yet still just a car washer.

 

David, I might have to go out to boonah with a bucket n sponge and be a hanger rat.

 

 

[XP503]

Trust me I have learned a bucketload by being a hangar rat. Especially about the ins and outs of aerolpanes....

 

Washing a/c is the easiest way to find little things that are not right or things that have come undone or unscrewed themselves etc.....

 

If you are serious about wanting to come out and help wash the aeroplanes at Airsport then I would be more than happy to show you the ropes, I need all the help I can get as I am very busy with work these days and the aeroplanes get dirty quickly, message me if you are keen.

 

Thanks

 

 

[DAVID SEE]

Mate, I'd gladly pay $50 to have the lightwing washed, because whoever did the job would earn their money, a lot of cattle in the airstrip paddock and no matter how careful one is, you always seem to find a fresh one. the worst of it is when you taxi with the door open and thats when you are leaning out the side to see into the setting sun and eyes squinted up to see through the glare and don't see the freshly made 'cake' just sitting in the grass waiting for some old fool to be coming home when.......splatter,splatter and splat,......instantly say f**<;!!'~,:/**......then think to oneself 'bugger, I've done that before'.....you idiot. Then your wife won't let you in the house until you clean up and stop smelling, and you gotta clean the plane pretty quick too, the tail wheel goes up on the fence post to wash under the tail and aww, damn it, it just goes on and on, it just tops the day off nicely... really makes you enjoy a beer or four..

 

Cheers Davo.

 

 

[XP503]

HAhahahaah

 

 

[Guest burbles1]

I guess cleaning up after cattle all the time would give you experience in getting cleaning down pat.

 

 

[Mazda]

There are professional aircraft detailers and they charge like wounded bulls. Their main clients are corporate jet owners.

 

 

[Guest ryanboxer]

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