The independent aircraft interior completion manager is based on a dusty little airport on the outskirts of Fort Worth, Texas, and the airplane interior being finished is in a hangar halfway around the world, where a crown prince is awaiting delivery.
Michael Ward, president and CEO of EAS Completions in Addison, Texas, said that procedure is working out pretty well. But it doesn’t come together without a lot of detailed planning and logistics management and the occasional bout of agita.
EAS is one of a number of independent companies offering aircraft owners a form of turnkey service in planning, managing and monitoring their aircraft interior completion or refurbishment, in some cases all the way from aircraft acquisition through delivery. Most are small, employing a core staff of less than a half-dozen full-time employees and hiring contract expertise as the job demands. And the good ones, said Herbert Artinger, founder and owner of Aircraft Conformance Engineering Service (Aces), take a certain pride in that independent status.
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