Maintenance On-call

摘要

Aircraft maintenance providers have been sending crews out to customer locations to turn wrenches for aircraft on ground (AOG) situations for decades. However, shops have been kicking it into gear the last few years, creating dedicated response teams, specialized mobile maintenance vehicles and upping their response time and capabilities. By utilizing mobile or rapid response teams, customers can reduce downtime, save money and benefit from convenience by not having to schedule a crew, fuel the plane, arrange for travel and add cycles to the aircraft just to move it to a facility. AMT talked to a number of maintenance facilities, so many that we will be breaking apart this feature article into two parts. Below you will find Part 1, and, Part 2 is planned for our April/May issue. We talked to Burlington Air Center, Duncan Aviation and StandardAero. The next installment will include Clay Lacy, West Star and Textron Aviation.