Polyaspartic coatings on aircraft?

I own a business that specializes in polyurea high performance coatings. One of the products that I apply is a polyaspartic top coat. The stuff is tough and holds up to most chemicals well, though it is attacked by ethanol. Right now one of the hot uses for polyaspartic esters is for flooring because it has good abrasion resistance and doesn't fade.

I'm curious whether it would be a suitable coating for aircraft. My factory rep seems to think that it wouldn't be necessary to use more than 10 mils total and that 5-6 might be adequate to do the job.

Is the weight of the paint applied to an aircraft a significant consideration?

Anyone have any thoughts on the use of alternate coating materials? I wasn't able to find much on the web about polyaspartics being use for aircraft but I did find two white papers that might be somewhat applicable.

http://www.corrdefense.org/Academia%20Government%20and%20Industry/T-33.pdf

http://www.corrdefense.org/Academia%20Government%20and%20Industry/T-49.pdf

Hi Eric

Most of our airplanes have way more area aft of the CG, so heavily painted airplanes have the CG move aft, for that reason.

Best,

The next time I've got some in the sprayer I'll shoot some aluminum and see how it comes out.

Pierre, how much paint would typically be applied to an RV? If it's actually changing the CG it would seem like a lot.

I know that in the drag racing world for a while guys weren't painting their cars just to lose a little weight. But some of them go kind of crazy with the lightening thing.