Turboprop cleaning, done for the exhaust.
PC-12, King Air, TBM and the rest. A turboprop soils differently to a jet and needs treating that way. Same-day service at nearly any airfield we cover.
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A turboprop gets dirty in its own particular way.
And most of it comes out of the exhaust stack.
Park a PT6-powered aircraft next to a light jet after the same trip and the difference is obvious. The stack deposits soot down the side of the fuselage from the exhaust outlet aft, and it does it on every single flight.
That soot is oily rather than dusty, which is why an ordinary wash smears it rather than lifting it. It needs the right product, dwell time and a technique that lifts rather than drags - otherwise you are grinding it into the paint.
PT6 exhaust soot. Oily, acidic and deposited aft of the stack on every flight. Left to build across a season it bonds into the paint and stops being something a wash will shift.
Propeller residue. The blades throw oil, grease and de-icing fluid outward onto the nacelle and forward fuselage in a pattern you never see on a jet, and it collects on the leading edges either side.
De-icing boots. Pneumatic boots are rubber, not paint. They need a boot-safe product and conditioning, because the wrong solvent hardens them and a hardened boot is a replacement, not a clean.
Unpressurised and low-level flying. Turboprops spend their time in the weather rather than above it, which means far more insect strike on the leading edges - and insect residue is acidic.
Add it up and a turboprop needs washing more often than a jet flying the same hours, not less. The FAA lists washing as corrosion prevention in Advisory Circular 43-4B, and this is exactly the airframe that proves the point.
The good news is that all of it lifts easily while it is fresh. The whole job is a question of when, not how hard.
Soot, lifted rather than smeared.
What a proper turboprop wash gets back.
Drag the slider to compare. The finish underneath is usually far better than the owner expects.
Exterior - exhaust staining lifted, belly degreased
Interior - carpet extracted before the stain set
Turboprops we work on regularly.
Single and twin, private and fleet.
Pilatus PC-12
The aircraft we see most. Long trips, a hard-working PT6 and a cabin that carries families as often as it carries executives - so interior and exterior both matter.
Beechcraft King Air
Twin PT6s means soot down both sides and residue across two nacelles. Often flown hard on short sectors, which is the pattern that builds deposits fastest.
Daher TBM
Fast, single-engine and usually immaculate by owner preference. The paint is worth protecting, so technique matters more than chemistry here.
Cessna Caravan and others
Utility turboprops live outside, work hard and rarely see a hangar. For these, washing is corrosion control before it is presentation.
An aircraft on an open hardstanding takes rain, UV, bird mess and, on a coastal field, salt continuously. Combine that with exhaust soot and the cleaning interval needs to be shorter than a hangared jet, not longer.
We cover the small fields as well as the big ones - 44 English airfields, including the grass strips and GA airfields where most turboprops actually live.
For a based aircraft a scheduled programme is far better value than occasional callouts, and it stops the deposits ever reaching the point where they are difficult.
What you get
A wash that suits the aeroplane you actually own.
Products matched to the surface
Boot-safe on the de-icing boots, paint-safe on the paint, and something that will actually lift oily soot rather than move it around.
We come to the aircraft
Same-day cover at nearly any airfield we cover, including the small ones. No repositioning the aircraft to get it cleaned.
One-off or on a plan
A single wash before a trip, or a recurring programme sized to how often the aircraft flies and where it parks.
Turboprop owners and fleets we look after.
Our existing clients range from FBOs, to fleet operators and private clients.
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Tell us the type and where it sits.
Let us know the aircraft, the airfield and whether it lives inside or out. We will come back with a one-off price and a programme rate.
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