Are there any mechanical bits that you just can’t get anymore, or has every major assembly been remanufactured by now too?
ie throttle box, chassis control, undercarriage legs, pintels, cylinders.
What about prop hubs, are these still hens teeth?
Most parts have been remanufactured at some point over the years – Dowty made some new prop hubs for Charles Church in the late 1980’s – but they are indeed very rare and expensive. Its still more desirable to source original items where they are available and that is the reason why I suspect that u/c retract units have not beed re-maunfactured – neither have u/c legs to my knowledge (although it has been done for the Hurricane). U/C pintles are avialable new. Prop blades are almost always new (manufactured by Hoffman of Germany).
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