Managed airworthiness in production on 48 aircraft.

The shop

Franconaves is an Airbus and Safran approved maintenance shop at La Aurora airport in Guatemala City. It maintains helicopters of the Écureuil family, AS350/H125 and EC130/H130, with Safran Arriel engines. Franconaves authorized being named in this case.

The problem

Keeping an aircraft legal to fly means watching hundreds of deadlines at the same time: inspections that fall due by flight hours, engine cycles or calendar; life-limited parts retired at an exact cycle count; airworthiness directives and service bulletins; documents that expire. All of it lived in paper logbooks and spreadsheets, and the owner of the aircraft, the person paying for everything, saw none of it until an invoice arrived.

What is in production

The fleet runs on the system today, aircraft by aircraft. The catalogs for the airframes and the Arriel engines were extracted complete from the official Airbus and Safran manuals. The warehouse inventory is loaded, at 2,695 line items. When a work order closes, the system generates the Certificate of Release to Service under RAC 43, for certifying staff to sign. Each owner has a portal showing the status of their aircraft, the upcoming work with projected dates, and the billed amount of every order.