"In Aviation Safety Letter (ASL) 1/2010, Transport Canada (TC) published an article which reproduced a Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) Aviation Safety Advisory titled "Major Modifications to Amateur-Built Aircraft".  Some aircraft referred to in the article were incorrectly identified as Bush Caddy aircraft.  It has since been determined that none of the aircraft mentioned in the subject article were Bush Caddy aircraft.  Consequently, the article has been removed from all online versions of ASL 1.2010.  With this notice, TC also retracts the article from the printed version of ASL 1/2010.  Further, the aircraft type in the June 28, 2009 occurrence listed in the section entitled 'Accident Synopses' on page 31 of ASL 1/2010 should read "C.A.D.I. L-160", and not "Bush Caddy".  The ASL apologizes to Canadian Light Aircraft Sales and Services Inc. (CLASS) Bush Caddy, and to owners and operators of CLASS Bush Caddy aircraft for this error.

The story is now up on the Flight 8 home page at http://web.ncf.ca/fn352/flight8/index.html and in more detail on our blog at http://copa8.blogspot.com/2010/02/bush-caddy-and-aviation-safety-letter.html

Just a few Emails and Responses
Gooday Sean
Tonight I received a phone call from a potential BushCaddy customer who had prevoiusly contacted me, advising me of the TC issue. Having read all I could find on the web, I have left a comment on the COPA Flight 8 website. I sincerely hope that you can initiate appropriate action against the obviously ill-informed and vindictive public servant responsible for the attack on your credibility. The potential customer is flying from Wangaratta, Victoria next week to inspect and fly my R 80. I am confident that the aircraft will tell its own story, as usual.
 Regards from Beetaloo Valley, Sth Oz
John Birrell

Att Sean, 
I have 34 hours logged on my L 164 without any problems and am quite pleased with the performance.
The recent reports in the Aviation Safety letter are getting a lot of attention. The modifications that some builders are doing  on C.A.D.I.  and replica wings are reflecting badly on Bushcaddy. Can you confirm the thickness of spars on my L 164 Sn.004-114 ? If this one turns out to be sufficient I would be interested in helping to publicise some counterclaims regarding these wing failures. If you can update me with some explainations and recomendations I will help publish information throughout our Flying Club to save the reputation of Bush Caddy.
Yours truly
Glenn Bishell

Hello,
I just want to let you know we have been emailing around our various lists  information to  counter the negative report that went out.
People are being informed that it was not your great airplane that was given the negative report.
Maybe this will actually stimulate more positive market awareness for you.
Dave Herron
CYEL

Sean and Marlene,
After studying the recent Transport Canada article making reference to Bushcaddy, it seems to me that it has been written and published using vague information, and unfortunately, leads the reader to conclusions based on that information.
If there is anything I can do to help, let me know.  You have my full support.
Curtis Fogal.

Thanks for that Sean.
I did re-read that TCSB article very closely.
I had two people show me that article the other day. As with me, It appeared to them, on the first read, to implicate Bush Caddy.  Why Bush Caddy or CADI was even mentioned is beyond me at this point. It is apparent that Trans.Canada did not do Bush Caddy any favors as most readers will only scan an article once .. unless it is of particular interest.
As for my airplane, I am more than satisfied it is well within safe limits in all respects. Much more so than many others in it's class, so I'll keep flying it as I always have, and with complete confidence.
 I hope the retraction is written with much more clarity and is more definitive that particular article . Perhaps readers shouldn't jump to conclusions right away either.
I hope all works out for the best for CLASS and Bush Caddy.
Thanks Again,
Gord

Hello Sean,   
Thank you for your  response!    Words can't describe how "sick" we felt over this, not even able to  eat or sleep.....thinking we had to start all over again...   Karen did a little dance and whoop around the room!         Whew!         
Joe and Karen Ulrich
P.S.  Our Bushcaddy should be flying this summer, finally.    HOORAY!

Sean,
Merci beaucoup de prendre le temps de nous tenir informé.  Le comportement des autorités gouvernementales responsables de ce dossier fait franchement amateur.  C'est vraiment désolant et troublant de voir la réputation de CLASS Inc. se faire ternir de la sorte par le manque de rigueur de de professionnalisme du TSB.
Je sympathise avec vous et vos employés et j'espère scincèrement que CLASS Inc. saura s'en sortir sans trop de dommage,
Continuez votre bon travail,
Sylvain Papillon

 Hello Sean and Marlene,I can only imagine the headaches you must be dealing with on this whole issue.When you think of the transportation 
 safety board you used to think of a body that was so very meticulous .  How could they have made such a huge mistake? I personally think they 
owe you much more than a lame apology. I am not sure how it could be  done but maybe the right approach might turn all this publicity into a 
positive thing.  All the best and if there is anything I can do to help as a Bushcaddy owner please let me know.
 Anthony van Dyk