Alaskan-style STOL Bush Plane – 80% complete eLSA project – zero-hour 912ULS included

Last chance, before I dismantle and sell as parts - The DooMaw is a rugged Alaskan-style STOL bush-plane designed with
off-field operations as a primary consideration. It has long-travel suspension,
large wheels, high ground-clearance, 5 stage barn-door flaps, Handley Page
slots, huge propeller, 100hp Rotax, luggage bin and is built with
crash-worthiness as a priority.

This design has a sophisticated folding-wing mechanism where the
wings fold, in seconds, flat against the side of the fuselage, so it takes up
very little room in a trailer or hangar. Can be built with, or without the
folding wings.

The build to date is extensively documented online, on the DooMaw
– building a STOL thread, on Aircrafts Pilots Forum.
Anyone who may be interested in this aircraft should read the entire 12 pages
of the thread please, it will explain most things about the design and build,
and the detailed images show the quality of every aspect of the build. To view
the thread you will have to register on the site, it is free and only takes a
few minutes – and there is a wealth of information of all aspects of aviation
on that site.

The build time to date has been about 1900 leisurely hours, there
are about 2-300hrs required to complete it.

For sale are –

• Fully TIG welded 4130
  chromoly airframe incl. fuselage, fin, rudder, folding horizontal
  stabiliser with bracing cables and folding lock mechanism, elevators with
  trim tab etc
• Rotax 912 ULS 100hp
  engine on semi-dynafocal and ring-mount, 12yrs old but never run – it has
  been fogged and ports kept sealed, will need an inspection and rubber
  replacement
• Bolly gold-anodised hub
  and 3 CF blades adjustable pitch 72”dia propeller, and spinner
• Tall, long-travel
  landing gear legs and tailwheel
• All controls are
  installed, including 5 stage flap lever, adjustable rudder pedals,
  throttle, fuel tank, s/s firewall
• Forward fuselage aly
  panels, primed and drilled ready for riveting
• Stits Polyfiber fabric
  for fuselage and wing covering, including inspection ports, strips/tapes
  etc
• Impact-absorbing seat
  system with seat cushions and upholstery with headrests
• 4 point ex-military
  harnesses
• Instrument panel with
  analog instruments and mini tablet mount, fuel sight gauge
• 2 ¼” Becker VHF
  transceiver and 2x antennas
• Exhaust, Oil tank, Oil
  cooler, Airbox (not fitted), Radiator
• Adjustable rudder pedals
  (both sides), glider style
• Differential hydraulic
  Black Max toe brakes, both sides
• 6” wheels with large
  balloon 22” tyres
• All machined parts for
  sophisticated ‘fold flat against the side’ wing folding mechanism (or
  install the wings non-folding if hangar space/trailering is not an issue)
• 4130 tube material for
  wing torque tube controls, with bushings, fittings etc
• Main spar 6061T6
  material with packets of solid rivets
• Streamline 6061T6 wing
  strut extrusions
• Machined articulated
  strut ends for wing-folding
• Various hardware, piano
  hinges, AN bolts, CRMO tubing, bushings, bearings etc
• All sizes of new AN
  bolts to complete the project with a large surplus
• Full documentation from
  the outset of the project including registering the build with RAAus prior
  to commencement
• All housed in a large
  aly-skinned box trailer with new tyres and registered, ready to tow
  away·        

Before the project was paused, all chromoly framing was protected
with a thin coating of sprayed epoxy but will need disassembly and a light
sandblasting to remove minor surface rusting marks and suggest powdercoating.

Purchaser will need to be someone with the appropriate fabrication
skills and some knowledge of aircraft design. This is not a kit but a custom
design, however it does follow the general steel-framed ‘Alaskan Bushplane’
concept, so is no more complex than the Piper Cub but with performance more in
keeping with the Just Aircraft SuperSTOL.

Priced at well under half the total cost of the listed components
- and with 1900 hours of skilled labour thrown in free!

Contact me for more information and a link to 600+ high resolution
photos of the build to date.

Open to offers ...