Best Way To Reference Instantiated Prefabs with Each Other.

Hi I did some research on Instantiating multiple Prefabs that reference each other and started implementing referencing the correct prefab via find methods like so:

     var children = cockpit.GetComponentsInChildren<Transform> ();
         foreach (var child in children){
             if (child.name == "GUICanvas") {
                 speedGUI = child.transform.Find("Speed").gameObject;
                 rpmGUI = child.transform.Find("RPM").gameObject;
                 yawGUI = child.transform.Find("YawSlider").gameObject;
                 pitchGUI = child.transform.Find("PitchSlider").gameObject;
                 rollGUI = child.transform.Find("RollSlider").gameObject;
                 throttleGUI  = child.transform.Find("ThrottleSlider").gameObject;
                 thrustGUI  = child.transform.Find("ThrustSlider").gameObject;
                 trimGUI  = child.transform.Find("TrimSlider").gameObject;
                 primaryWeaponGUI  = child.transform.Find("PrimaryWeapon").gameObject;
                 secondaryWeaponGUI  = child.transform.Find("SecondaryWeapon").gameObject;
             }
             if (child.name == "Altitude") {
                 altitudeGUI = child.gameObject;
             }
             if (child.name == "RingOfFire") {
                 fireDeath = child.gameObject;
             }
             if (child.name == "CampFire") {
                 fireSmall = child.gameObject;
             }
             if (child.name == "Native Cam") {
                 NativeCam = child.gameObject;
                 deathAnimation = child.gameObject.GetComponent<Animation> ();
             }
 
             if (child.name == "Controller (Left)") {
                 Debug.Log ("Hand found");
                 LeftHand = child.gameObject;
             }
         
         }

It feels rather ugly, is there another way of approaching this? Essentially there are 2 prefabs cross-referencing each other. When I Instantiate the prefabs many of the references are missing as the instantiated object will look for the gameobjects referenced when the prefab was created which does not exist.

Hope it makes sense?