Kitplane! Skyreach Bushcat Aircraft - You Can Build and Afford FAST! 

The rep did a great job describing the craft and its features. Very professional.

True tough nuts and bolts Model T of the aviation world - should be a total winner! Thank you so much for finding them!

Very nice plane and as others have noted the factory rep really seemed to know her stuff. Great video.

Glad to see you review Bushcat Brian! GREAT SPONSOR segment too!

I love this airplane !!!!!! Wonderful video !

Great plane ! You sold me on those seats . ❤️

Love your 📹 videos!! It's a treat to see when a new episode drops!!! Keep up the great work!!

Great plane. Excellent demonstration/representative. It comes to mind its pretty easy to provide few alternative front forked for the of us that want a larger front bush tire. Obviously we can make our own, but the option to get one from the factory would be a plus to sales.

always been a fan of the Bushcat

Dear Santa... I would like a Bush Cat Sooooo bad...

Ample! Brilliant! Cheers mates!!

Great looking plane.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🤙🏻

I am surprised Bushcats are not much more popular. Most concerns I've seen about parts and tech support over the long haul are minor. How hard is it to get aluminum tubing, cabling, nuts/bolts, Rotax parts, etc? WHEN WILL WE SEE FOLDING WINGS, even as an option? With hangar availabity and pricing at a premium, this can be a key feature.

Man I LOVE that plane! Would love to get one!

Excellent video. Great info. She did a good job. Thanks for taking the time to make the video. I like the airplane.

very cool, great explanation and pitch

A very instructive, informative and well made video, many thanks. All the best for your future growth. Regards from South Africa.

Great to see a South African aeroplane featured! 😎🇿🇦

VERY COOL !!

Excellent stuff bro

Looks like a fun cheep flyer to go out and enjoy the back country

I have now watched a planeload of Bushcat videos on the Bushcat Tom channel! This is a great airplane! Did you meet disco Bob?

Very nice video. And thanks again :)

Nice video.

Nice plane

Fascinating

Love the windshield, no pipes going across. Just airplane looks are awesome!!!

That was an awesome interview...the young lady knows her plane! Wish I was younger and had some disposable income. Great job...really enjoy your episodes.

I want me one dem!

Sweet Bird

Looks like a great plane and a good candidate for a Viking engine!

Beautiful aircraft, i would change few things. Like the stick electric flaps and change the front suspantion to add a biger tire

Impressive

The Bush cat is my dream airplane! I hope one day to get my pilots license and be able to afford one.

Been looking at this plane for awhile now. Just sold my old 140a and deciding what to do next.

Another great video. The Bushcat has some great features, and the covering system is one of my favorites due to not needing to mess with glues, heat shrinking, and painting. Did you fly it? Wonder how the flight characteristics are compared to our Cessna 150? We are seriously considering building a Bushcat the fall.

I want one !!!

Never mind !! 😋

Very Cool. I think I want one!

Tailwheel version is cool

Very nice bush plane! Has a lot of well thought out features. Cheers from Winnipeg.

G,day from Sydney, Australia. * Great review of the Bush cat light sport plane. * Performance specification, availability and cost options. 🌏🇭🇲

Man! I like this one. Currently on the path for my PPL. Plan is to build a plane and this one just made the list of possibilities.

The wing material is it like ultralights or hang gliders I know the material on those aircraft has a time limit like 10 years then it's very costly to replace it all. The advantage is not having to spend the 100's hours labor needed for cloth, or high cost of ortex shrink on cover. Looking at their US dealer cost is about $86k ready to fly with the 912ULS that's a great price. Useful weight is 613lbs that's not bad for two seater haul most guys even if both push 250 each. Looked for accidents online none that I could find were fatal couple of nose overs, one guy in Australia hit terrain while landing was the most serious injurie, and one other who landed in a river with floats wind gust nosed over to the left. Like your channel you always find the aircraft that regular people can afford. I see lot of reviews of aircraft reality is most can't afford 100k plus airplane. $86k is still lot of money but it's somewhat doable for most with ongoing maintenance.

Looks like a sweet little bird. I'm thinking a bit more BHP????? The price is right in the ball park.

It's a really big ultralight. I'm eager to upgrade from the ultralights I've been buzzing around in. And it's as close to affordable as any aircraft possibly can be these days. Love!

I would like to see a yamaha apex fitted on one

I want one

Really appreciate this talk. Looking forward to go back to South Africa and have a good look at it! But how does it fly, specially in turbulence?

Great video, I wish my wife would let me get one.

Is engine availability an issue for this plane at this time?

There is one of these at a nearby airport to mine. Definitely has some ramp appeal! One issue I see with the way that is set up is that the flap handle and the stick are both in the center which means you would have to reach across yourself to lower/raise flaps while you are flying. I'm assuming there is a dual center stick option which would fix that.

I wonder about a traditional semi monocoque design. I agree good lines and neat features but the frame kinda makes me wonder

I think I'd get it experimental and put a Viking 90 hp motor in it.

Is it available with duel stick?

How difficult is it to change the plane from a taildragger to the amphibious set up? Looking to get one soon and would like to be able to interchange the two if possible!

Great aircraft but with the center stick and the position of the flap handle it looks like it could be a little bit awkward to use the flaps

Is there a wing option? Like that would be a great motorglider cabin.

I'll take one I wonder how they perform in Colorado with flights in the 5000 to 8-9000 feet range? Looks about right labor wise for a family type project!!

Is there any room for cup holders?

So if we self-built that same package, (2 Dynon Skyviews, engine & prop, etc) what could that be done for?

Interesting. It's surprisingly heavy for a fabric bird. My all metal LSA is a full person lighter. Maybe there is some weight in bush wheels but still. It sort of underlines my belief that just a glider style monocoque composite body is both the simplest, lightest and most aerodynamic construction so it really should be possible to make a sleek fast bird also be a stol plane by virtue of minimal weight. That could be a powerful combination, maybe even make it a waterbird with some foils.

That stick to hold the door open is silly. I wonder if there's plans to add a strut or a spring or something.

How much for the factory build ??

At one point she said that the Vs1 was in the low thirties. The specs show 43. Which or what is the real world full flap stall?

I noticed you stated that the seats weren't adjustable and were designed for larger people. What about those of us in the 5'6 to 5' 10" range. How are we supposed to adjust to the long reach? Really like this aircraft!

Flap handle and stick in the center. Add in choke and trim. That’s an awfully busy right hand. Just an observation.

Never seen this one. If I can ever afford it I will be getting one. Anyone know what a monthly payment and down payment would look like on this?

While certainly an attractive and sporty looking aircraft, (I really like the look and flow of the cowling as well as many of fhe slick cockpit control features.) the bolt together aluminum airframe "appears" a little too "ultralight" to be rugged enough for the more aggressive bush landings of, say, the more mountainous backcountry of Idaho and surrounding areas. Of course, this is only supposition as all others in this class seem to be welded 4130 steel, Also how fairs the sail cloth vs. doped fabric and paint under UV assault, overall lifespan, etc.? Then there is the grove gear vs. cabane debate. I can see where it would, pardon the low hanging fruit, "shine" in the Florida sun where there are no mountains. Just thinking out loud, as it were.

16:10 $$$

What is the cost per hour if you have ownership of this light aircraft?

Do you really have to let go of the yoke to operate the flaps??? Can't see myself going for that.

Love the aircraft. Hate the flap handle. Surely there is a better way?

86,000... Can buy a nice 170B with 900lb useful or 2 PA-22/20s, or a beater C-182...

Why would a Taildragger be heavier than a tricycle geard plane?

Affordable !!! 40000 is not affordable, you can it on the face of the present 😁😁

I see they addressed the poorly designed nosewheel design which was very weak and if you flew with Spats, its impossible to inspect the welds (where they always used to crack) without removing the spats entirely. Two variants of the nose wheel "suspension" were made one with springs situated inside the cabin (the better of the two!) and another with a doughnut style rubber ring situated int he same place - the later is much harder and transferred more load into the nose-wheel, making it that much more prone to cracking (fatigue) - great to see that this has been replaced with a much better design! The previous old, cut, weld, and fold over another piece of steel plate to re-weld design that this was made from seemed to be a short cut approach. The rest of the plane is great, easy to fly, handles well, good on fuel, a little slow at cruise but acceptable for a bushplane. The first releases called the Cheetah had horrible drum brakes, and the tires never sat flat on the ground, there was always a camber issue where the tires wore on the outsides. I was the first to replace the brakes in South Africa ( I hangar at the same airfield as Skyreach) to a disc brake model, and i upgraded a total of 7 planes, before Skyreach purchased the black max brakes for the bushcat. A tip (if the newest bushcat doesnt have this done already) is to replace the plastic brake line with steel lines inside the cockpit, it gives better brake feel and less spongy compression to the hand brake lever when doing so. Leave the plastic line outside the plane, so you can visibly inspect the line for air bubbles, and colour of the fluid etc. A great, easy to fly, robust plane (except the nose-wheel) plenty fun to fly, and can be flown long distances with ease, and nice and comfortable on a long flight. Nice large cabin inside too. Doors can be removed for kicking out a meat bomb (sky diver) should you want to do this -- i have done this at a fly in, and its great flying with the doors off on a hot day. Max suggested speed with doors off is 60mph, and the zips at the rear on the sides of the Fuselage need to be opened when doing so.... Nice video.

So we can pop the doors off for summer, but what about heat for winter?

Will this airplane be available in Europe?

Can a BushCat be fitted with a ballistic parachute?

Good camera work Pls don't mention SA Some people has egos Say it's made in USA

this looks like a great Zenith stile aircraft but even as a tail dragger, I just am not a fan of those center counsel Y shaped sticks or that air rest Throtal. I see the draw, but its just nit for me. I'm more into a center stick with left hand throttle on a tandem seating. this is a great aircraft and I can defiantly see the draw.

How much?

What is the range on cruise with a full tank ?

Daniela pronounces the K in Knoll? Never heard that in my life

Had to hit the "speed control dots" Was talking a l'il fast...

she says stall speed is low 30's but specs say 43mph(38knots)?! which is it?

Am I the only one that noticed you have to take your hands off the stick (or reach across) to operate the flaps...not reat

Nice kit but I’d rather spend 10,000 more dollars and get a Titan t-51 mustang

you meant babushcat??

I wouldn't feed so confortable having those fuel tanks right behind my back in the case of an emergency TBH

We have found that the fabric doesn't last with lots of sun exposure. The control surfaces need recovering often. Depending on flight time, somewhere around a 2 to 3 year replacement period. Also, absolutely NO luggage capacity

Maybe someone more excited about the aircraft and not so bored sounding should showcase it….

The cowling is ugly. other than that a great looking aircraft.

Way overpriced for what you get...its a 60k airplane at best!!! But it's a cool looking bird!

An expensive toy...yikes! I trained at and live close to DeLand...

This interview feels like there should be a black casting couch involved. "Geeky plane chick takes dual instruction for the first time at the landing strip."

“…very unique…” No, please.

No problem building it, but affordable? Nah, not so much... at just under 90 grand.... really?

"Affordable" *Laughs and cries in barely 23k income*