Maintenance and Modifications
Former Weco Ops Manager Sentenced for Endangering Aircraft
Jerry Kuwata sentenced to one year in prison.

United States District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Jerry Edward Kuwata, the former operations manager at Weco Aerospace Systems, to one year in prison for conspiring with others to conceal facts from customers and the FAA about Weco's fraudulent aircraft repairs between October 2006 and February 2008. Weco was an FAA-certified repair business with facilities in Lincoln and Burbank, Calif., and was authorized to work on certain types of aircraft parts, including starter generators and converters.