Maintenance and Modifications
AIN Survey: Independent Maintenance Shops Surviving and Thriving
Independent maintenance providers discuss the challenges and benefits of working with OEMs to support their customers.

AIN 2016 Maintenance Report

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The manufacturers of business jets hold a lot of cards when it comes to maintenance of their products. Most of them prefer to be the maintenance provider for their aircraft that are relatively young, especially those still covered under warranty, but often even longer than that. But obviously factory-owned service centers can’t handle all of the business generated by their fleets. Even Textron Aviation’s large company-owned service center network would find it impossible to maintain every one of the 7,000 Citations that it has delivered and that are still flying.