Summary: Design and DER work to substantiate the installation of two bulkheads and cargo nets to restrain bucket cargo in a Cessna 206 aircraft.

Project Name: Structural Substantiation, Cessna U206F, Cargo Restraint System

Client: Troutdale Aircraft Services

Client Request: To design and analyze a system to restrain buckets of agricultural cargo in the passenger area of a Cessna 206 aircraft.

Project Summary: Structural substantiation of modifications made to a Cessna U206F by removal of the passenger seats and installation of cargo restraints, including a bulkhead behind the pilot, a short bulkhead between the pilot and former co-pilot seat, multiple seat tracks installed for attachment of cargo fittings, and a series of cargo barrier nets.  In order to tie down the cargo nets and provide structure for the nets and bulkheads, seat track was installed along the sides and to the ceiling.