GA - Fuel Delivery System

[Okavango]

Hi. Has anyone got experience of setting up a fuel delivery system for a small GA club? Assumed parts would be a rotary handpump (on 100LL), filter, meter and delivery hose/nozzle (probably on a reel). Any information of products and suppliers appreciated as current searches on the internet have been dead ends.

[Avtrician]

You will need a bung spanner for the drums, and a spear to draw the fuel from the drum. If you are charging for the fuel, the meter will need to be calibrated. A honda (or similar) pump may be advantageous, if pumping lots of fuel.

Dont forget earthing leads to connect fuel nozzle and drums to grounding point and the aircraft.

[ericferret]

Buy a small bowser. My local group did that. My personal choice would have been a trailer bowser but they bought small lorry bowser. £5000. Comes with all the water drain points hoses metering and filters. Remember you are legaly responsible for aviation fuel dispensed.


From the ANO 2016

Aviation fuel at aerodromes

220.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), an aviation fuel installation manager must not cause or permit any fuel to be delivered to the installation unless satisfied that—

(a)the installation is capable of storing and dispensing the fuel so as not to render it unfit for use in aircraft;

(b)the installation is marked in a manner appropriate to the grade of fuel stored or if different grades are stored in different parts each part is so marked; and

(c)in the case of delivery from a vehicle or vessel, the fuel has been sampled and is of a grade appropriate to that installation and is fit for use in aircraft.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), an aviation fuel installation manager must not cause or permit any fuel to be dispensed from the installation to an aircraft unless satisfied as the result of sampling that the fuel is fit for use in aircraft.

(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply to fuel which has been removed from an aircraft and is intended for use in another aircraft operated by the same operator as the aircraft from which it has been removed.

(4) The aviation fuel installation manager must keep a written record for each installation of which they have the management, which record must include detailed information about—

(a)the grade and quantity of aviation fuel delivered and the date of delivery;

(b)all samples taken of the aviation fuel and of the results of tests of those samples; and

(c)the maintenance and cleaning of the installation.

(5) The aviation fuel installation manager must—

(a)preserve the written record required under paragraph (4) for 12 months or such longer period as the CAA may in a particular case direct; and

(b)within a reasonable time after being requested to do so by an authorised person, produce such record to that person.

(6) A person must not cause or permit any aviation fuel to be dispensed for use in an aircraft if the person knows or has reason to believe that the aviation fuel is not fit for use in aircraft.

(7) If it appears to the CAA or an authorised person that any aviation fuel is intended or likely to be delivered in contravention of any provision of this article, the CAA or that authorised person may direct the aviation fuel installation manager not to permit aviation fuel to be dispensed from that installation until the direction has been revoked by the CAA or by an authorised person.

(8) In this article—

“aviation fuel” means fuel intended for use in aircraft;
“aviation fuel installation” means any apparatus or container, including a vehicle, designed, manufactured or adapted for the storage of aviation fuel or for the delivery of such fuel to an aircraft;
“aviation fuel installation manager” means a person who has the management of any aviation fuel installation on an aerodrome in the United Kingdom.

[NutLoose]

something like this? can you not pick up an ex-mod unit?


Water Bowser | Highway Bowsers | Fuel Bunded Tank (http://www.trailerengineering.co.uk/product.asp?id=1)

[Okavango]

Thanks all. Sorry I should have mentioned - we already have a submerged tank and just need to replace the manual pump, meter, filter and hoses. Any info and suppliers appreciated.

[NutLoose]

Like this?

Fluid Transfer Fuel Pumping, & Filtration System, #60882 - MOD Sales, Military Vehicles & Used Ex MOD Land Rovers for Sale (http://www.mod-sales.com/direct/vehicle/,32,/60882/Fluid_Transfer_Fuel_Pumping.htm)

[NutLoose]

Or these

Fuel - Oil Pumps (http://www.ecosure.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_Fuel__-_Oil_Pumps.html)