Catt Aircraft Maintenance

Catt Aircraft Maintenance Repairs and maintnenace to all General aviation aircraft, Cessna, Piper, Beechcraft, Mooney

31/03/2026

The turbo Bonanza’s(Tornado Alley) is going for its second flight (home) with the big 550ci big bore continental engine, tornado alley recommend full manifold pressure 2500rpm lean of peak, Gav tells me 186knot TAS at 8000 65 liters an hour, it’s a busy installation!
A few adjustments after yesterday flight, it’s a cool machine

Craig Macartney’s pride and joy Cessna 172m, It’s a great plane and immaculate, he wants to sell it. 220hours on an over...
06/03/2026

Craig Macartney’s pride and joy Cessna 172m, It’s a great plane and immaculate, he wants to sell it.
220hours on an overhauled Lycoming O320-E2D

It’s got 7500 hours total time
160k

19/02/2026

It definitely pulls harder on takeoff but I’ll get a better feel for the increase in cruize speed tomorrow and Saturday Deni-Mansfield-Deni then Deni-Whitecliffs-Deni Saturday
All went well just a check over the engine ✅, the new vernier throttle control was good
The logbook entry and flight manual supplements all done✅
Thanks Ross Taylor at sigma Tamworth for building an awesome engine and Bailey,Kirk and Davin @ Suncoast Airparts for the support and service so helpful they make my life so much easier tracking parts down!

17/02/2026

It goes! idle mixture adjustment and idle speed, prop governor 30 over (2730) wound that in a turn, the MAP senser stoped working momentarily last flight, it wouldn’t work at all, I had a new senser all done ready to fly tomorrow

Ready for a lap tomorrow!
17/02/2026

Ready for a lap tomorrow!

16/02/2026

Close now to getting it running, I got oil pressure by cranking it with the spark plugs out today, few more jobs tomorrow then ground runs and paperwork then test fly.

15/02/2026

Getting close on the 550 install, a few fiddly jobs tomorrow, get some oil pressure and then start it, it’s a fair mission detailing the engine bay and doing all the D’Shannon mods, these keep the engine cooler, meaning you can get to height quicker, level off and start smoken along!

The 550’s in 1 small step for man and 1 giant leap for man kind David Coats and Nigel Wettenhall helped me get it in and...
13/02/2026

The 550’s in

1 small step for man and 1 giant leap for man kind

David Coats and Nigel Wettenhall helped me get it in and under the front cowl without scratching anything

Progress on the 550 install in GTA, the next job is to add doublers to the new nose bowl so it doesn’t crack again, alth...
05/02/2026

Progress on the 550 install in GTA, the next job is to add doublers to the new nose bowl so it doesn’t crack again, although the new engine is balanced, only another $2500 but it’s cheap insurance and there’s nothing like smooth power!

The 520’s out (it’s hard pulling a perfectly running and flying plane apart) the 550 will be great thou and the Deshanno...
02/02/2026

The 520’s out (it’s hard pulling a perfectly running and flying plane apart) the 550 will be great thou and the Deshannon baffles and engine bay cooling panels hopefully will make cylinder 2 not get hot on climb.
Got a new nose bowl to go on and need to paint the engine bay

The 550 arrived for GTA, it was overhauled by Sigma Tamworth (Ross Taylor)Thanks to suncoast airparts, suncoast aero eng...
28/01/2026

The 550 arrived for GTA, it was overhauled by Sigma Tamworth (Ross Taylor)

Thanks to suncoast airparts, suncoast aero engines and Sigma Aerospace

Just gotta put it in!

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