When booking a pre-buy inspection, consider whether an aircraft is on the MRO's repair station certificate. Credit: Elliott Aviation When considering a preowned business aircraft, the wise purchaser ...

Drone or quadcopter with camera 3d for scanning. This idea is now being applied to aircraft inspections, and will result in lower costs and improved safety. Aircraft are regularly inspected for a lot ...

T-34C Turbo Mentors begin making their way back to Navy and Marine Corps training squadrons this month after completing standard five-year aircraft conditional inspections. Remarkably, the first T-34C ...

Tero Heinonen has a vision for a world where unmanned aircraft fly along millions of miles of power lines, railways and other major infrastructure. The aircraft would fly out of their pilots' sight to ...

In this piece, GBOYEGA ADEOYE writes on how artificial intelligence could help inspectors more quickly assess images taken by drones during visual inspections. A decade after drone use for aircraft ...

A generation ago, a spate of fatal crashes of planes and helicopters the Forest Service hired to fight wildfires spurred the agency to start having its own inspectors to make sure the aircraft could ...

Aircraft inspections are one of the best things operators can do to ensure safety in flight, but ironically, the chore can be a little unsafe for inspectors themselves. To properly review an ...

The following is extracted from the Boeing 767 Aircraft Maintenance Manual (AMM) recommendations for structural inspections after an aircraft has been written up for a turbulence encounter. These ...

Artisans at Fleet Readiness Center Southeast (FRCSE) Detachment (DET) Mayport are diligently overhauling several MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Take-Off and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (VTUAV ...