Cleaning the belly with Scrubbing Bubbles

23 Jun 2005 Cleaning the belly with Scrubbing Bubbles

Hello all,
I Learned a little trick from my father in law and thought I’d pass it on. His airplane is always clean, full of gas, and everything works or he doesn’t rest until it meets all of the above conditions.

Anyway, the belly of his airplane is usually cleaner than the top of every other airplane on the field so I asked how he keeps it this way. His cleaner of choice is Scrubbing Bubbles bathroom cleaner. I tried it a couple of days ago on the belly of my 9A and couldn’t believe it. You spray this stuff on and it foams up. As quickly as you can run a rag over it the belly is clean and there is next to no effort. To do the belly from the tie down hook on the tail to the firewall took literally less than 2 minutes and the plane looks like it just came from the painter again. There’s probably other products that would work well also, but there is no reason to look further. This stuff is being marketed incorrectly, it was obviously built for airplanes.

If anybody out there has little bits of information that can make our lives easier as much as this please share. I’m embarrassed to say, but I’ve been going to the wash rack and using dishwashing detergent and a brush on a telescoping pole that hooks onto the hose to clean the belly which just made a mess and took a lot of time. What else have I been doing the hard way? Please share.
Blue Skies,
Bryan Wood