CAVU Café: Royboy’s Prose & Cons

The following topics will be addressed:

• Background
• Requirements for Removal Tags
• Best Practices for Removal Tags
• Regarding your Trace Trail
• Accredited Disassembly Firms

BACKGROUND

Conspicuous in the aftermarket is th...

Since many of you have airline customers based in the EU, you may find it interesting that in the future you’ll be supplying parts to airlines participating in Europe’s nascent Civilian Airlift Reserve.

For a background on this concept, read a prev...

Aircraft certification affects the entire supply logistics chain; both on the front end (manufacturing for installation on production aircraft) and the back end (aftermarket support). This is because certification of the aircraft is what triggers pro...

I’m writing this article because of the great variation seen in the distribution community regarding the inspection staff who are typically the receiving and shipping inspectors. I encounter many inspectors that I would be proud to have on my own sta...

This is now my third article on this topic and here’s the link to the previous post:

https://www.aviationsuppliers.org/REVISITED-MILITARY-8130-3-S

What prompted me to write this is a major, welcomed update regarding the use of the 8130-3 for Retur...

Scenario 1:

A company reached out to me with a question. I thought it was an odd question coming from them. Did the parts they receive require an 8130-3? This was for some hardware, and we first established that the part numbers did not fit the def...