Sun, Dec 01, 2013
Company Selected To Provide “C” Check Maintenance Services
NASA has selected AerSale, Inc. to provide “C” check maintenance services for one of the agency's Airborne Science Program workhorses – the DC-8-72 flying laboratory. The aircraft has been flown to AerSale’s maintenance facility in Roswell, New Mexico, where it is to undergo major inspection and maintenance servicing.
AerSale will provide maintenance as part of the aircraft’s new Low Utilization Maintenance Plan -- LUMP for short. The LUMP also marries basic maintenance, the Corrosion Prevention and Control Program (CPCP) and the Structural Significant Items (SSI) inspection program into a single maintenance plan for efficiency and safety.
Boeing developed the LUMP program for NASA's DC-8-72 based on a maintenance plan for aircraft that fly fewer than 1,200 hours annually. For NASA's DC-8-72, this translates into periodic inspections that cost less and are more easily scheduled around science mission activities. "This heavy ‘C’ check enters NASA's DC-8-72 into the LUMP scheme of maintenance that provides a highly efficient means for managing airframe and subsystems inspections," said NASA's DC-8-72 project manager Frank Cutler.
“We are enthusiastic that NASA has selected AerSale to fulfill this DC-8-72 maintenance contract. This project allows AerSale-Roswell the opportunity to demonstrate its exceptional aircraft heavy maintenance expertise in compliance with the rigorous operational requirements of NASA,” commented Nicolas Finazzo, Chief Executive Officer of the company. “We are dedicated to the success of this program and excited about the prospect of fulfilling additional NASA requirements in the future.”
(NASA DC-8 image from file)
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