Darryl Greenamyer is the only person that I know of that has an engine compartment fire extinguisher system installed on a Legacy. This was done by Andy Chiavetta.

 

Cell: 1-714-225-2937

Office- 1-949-498-3875

 

He may be able to help you with this.

 

I’m not sure that the accident you referenced was caused by an inflight fire. There was a report by the pilot that he had a fire, but there was no fire on the ground, as the airplane did not burn.

 

Lynn Farnsworth

 Super Legacy # 235

TSIO-550 Powered

Race # 44

Mmo .6 Mach

 

 

 

Hey LML gang,

 

As part of our risk management strategy, we want to install an engine fire extinguishing system in our Legacy under construction.  We’ve zeroed in on this Halon 1301 based system from Safecraft.  See screen shot from Aircraft Spruce’s website:

 

 

We’d appreciate comments and advice from the community regarding choice of systems and installation recommendations.  Some specific questions are:

 

·       Would a single 5 lb bottle provide enough Halon concentration to extinguish an in-flight fire?

·       Do we need to route discharge lines to the cowling inlets to ensure we’re getting the Halon throughout the compartment when discharged for a fire?

·       Has anyone had an engine fire that was successfully extinguished in flight?

·       We’re trying to eliminate mechanical connections to the instrument panel to make it easy to remove for maintenance (eg. No push pull cables, etc.).  Anyone have experience with setting up for electrically actuating a system?

·       Etc.

Thanks,

 

Valin Thorn

 

Legacy

Houston, Texas

 

 

 

Starflight, Inc.

1702 Emerald Lake Ct,

Houston, TX 77062

281.486.4663

http://www.starflight.aero/legacy