Aircraft Maintenance

Here are the things you really should not do when maintaining an airplane.

A new aircraft owner shares underappreciated and least-anticipated learnings.

The care and keeping of landing gear is the baseline for any aircraft maintenance organization.

There are cost-saving options for aircraft parts that match the form, fit, and function of the originals—here’s how to find them.

Tool trucks can be worlds of enchantment, so it’s important to know your way around.

Wednesday’s certification opens the door for Marshall and Mountwest to start offering aviation maintenance technology as a program in their aviation divisions.

As an airplane undergoes its first annual inspection under its new owner’s watch, the resulting expectations and nerves transport this pilot into a mental version of a smoky waiting room of expectant fathers.

Several years ago, a pilot friend and former aircraft owner told me that owning an airplane is “more expensive than you would ever imagine,” and that was assuming I already imagined that it would be extremely expensive, even staggeringly so. Today, as I shop for my own airplane after years of renting, I realize he […]

A faulty glideslope connection fools a pilot into following the instrument’s needle almost into the ground.

Airline says remotely piloted vehicles can reduce out-of-service time by as much as 60 percent.