Description: Information on aircraft fuel sampling
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This website is dedicated to the preflight task of sampling aviation fuels and analyzing them for contamination with water, particulate materials and the proper type and color of the sampled fuel. To that end we have tested the commercially available fuel sampling and testing devices and picked the one we like best. Our pick is the GATS Jar Fuel Tester.
The picture below is meant as a gentle reminder of what can happen if there is an interruption of good fuel to an airplane engine during flight. We don't know exactly why this plane crashed, but the results are the same and it is never good. We hope no one was seriously injured in this accident.
The best Sampler should collect large enough samples to fully analyze the condition of the fuel and to some extent the integrity of the tank.