Narrative:

I am writing due to the situation I had with preflighting this airplane; aircraft X; a hawker hs-125-800XP; january 2015 in ZZZ after finishing the maintenance issues on another hawker-800; aircraft Y. When I started preflighting aircraft X; right away I could see the damage on the bracket that attaches to the nose gear strut. I have already written two company reports on this and have seen this on aircraft Y in ZZZ three days earlier and another pilot wrote it up on aircraft Z; another hawker-800; the same day when I told him about our airplane having this issue. Now on aircraft X; this time the bracket wasn't completely cracked around the relief hole for the grease zerk like the others; but was instead bent and had the paint worn off and what appeared to be a stress crack on it. It appeared that the bracket had shifted slightly around the strut and on one portion of the relief hole; it had bent around the strut by the zerk [grease fitting].to confirm this I went over to look at both aircraft Y and Z where a few days prior a new bracket was installed on the strut. On both of these two airplanes; that relief hole around the grease zerk was not bent but straight and set right over the grease zerk and not cocked to one side and bent like on aircraft X. Now the thing that bothered me was that this airplane had been preflighted three days earlier by two [flight test] pilots and I had told these two about the bracket being cracked on aircraft Y and how [is it] they couldn't see it bent like this; especially after I pointed it out on another plane; [had] surprised me. Either way I wrote this item up. The other issue we had with this airplane [aircraft X] is that when we tested the toilet; it wouldn't flush. There was no sound of the motor running but we had power in the lavatory and no circuit breaker's were out. So even if we hadn't had the nose gear strut bracket issue; there was no [way] we could have done our passenger leg after our ferry to ZZZ1; as we were flying cross country. Or if we did; we would have to stop one or two times at least for myself as my bladder could never make this long of a flight. I am sure this would not have pleased the owners. We also had a couple of other minor MEL issues and addressed these too. Now I point this issue out as this is the 5th time I have written up an airplane over this [nose gear bracket] in the last few months. I feel there is something causing this problem but either way it needs to be addressed by maintenance when we are at a service center. I have been told they have a list of items they check and this should be one of them.

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Title: A pilot reports about cracks that develop in a bracket attached to the Nose Landing Gear (NLG) strut that are not deferrable on Hawker HS-125-800 XP aircraft; causing delays and cancellations. Bracket supports a squat switch that controls the wing landing lights and taxi lights.

Narrative: I am writing due to the situation I had with preflighting this airplane; Aircraft X; a Hawker HS-125-800XP; January 2015 in ZZZ after finishing the maintenance issues on another Hawker-800; Aircraft Y. When I started preflighting Aircraft X; right away I could see the damage on the bracket that attaches to the Nose Gear Strut. I have already written two company reports on this and have seen this on Aircraft Y in ZZZ three days earlier and another pilot wrote it up on Aircraft Z; another Hawker-800; the same day when I told him about our airplane having this issue. Now on Aircraft X; this time the bracket wasn't completely cracked around the relief hole for the grease zerk like the others; but was instead bent and had the paint worn off and what appeared to be a stress crack on it. It appeared that the bracket had shifted slightly around the strut and on one portion of the relief hole; it had bent around the strut by the zerk [grease fitting].To confirm this I went over to look at both Aircraft Y and Z where a few days prior a new bracket was installed on the strut. On both of these two airplanes; that relief hole around the grease zerk was not bent but straight and set right over the grease zerk and not cocked to one side and bent like on Aircraft X. Now the thing that bothered me was that this airplane had been preflighted three days earlier by two [Flight Test] pilots and I had told these two about the bracket being cracked on Aircraft Y and how [is it] they couldn't see it bent like this; especially after I pointed it out on another plane; [had] surprised me. Either way I wrote this item up. The other issue we had with this airplane [Aircraft X] is that when we tested the toilet; it wouldn't flush. There was no sound of the motor running but we had power in the lavatory and no CB's were out. So even if we hadn't had the Nose Gear Strut bracket issue; there was no [way] we could have done our passenger leg after our ferry to ZZZ1; as we were flying cross country. Or if we did; we would have to stop one or two times at least for myself as my bladder could never make this long of a flight. I am sure this would not have pleased the owners. We also had a couple of other minor MEL issues and addressed these too. Now I point this issue out as this is the 5th time I have written up an airplane over this [nose gear bracket] in the last few months. I feel there is something causing this problem but either way it needs to be addressed by maintenance when we are at a service center. I have been told they have a list of items they check and this should be one of them.

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