StandardAero’s Airbus Helicopter Dynamic Components MRO facility in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, recently celebrated the company’s 40th anniversary.th One year of supporting Airbus Helicopters’ dynamic component services. The facility is a full-fledged MRO shop with a D-level rating and is supported by Airbus factory-trained technicians covering all MRO, VDI and BBOV areas for Airbus helicopter maintenance.
The Richmond site offers complete repairs and overhauls including testing of AS350/H125, AS355, H130/EC130 dynamic components. On-site capabilities include Level II NDT covering cleaning/stripping, MPI, FPI, in-house ECI, clean room for CNC CMM metrology, coating, gluing, and a complete set of conventional and CNC machinery to support in-house rework. It is included. StandardAero also does his R&O for small components such as shock absorbers and his TGB spider.
“Our team of Richmond technicians and engineers has a long history with Airbus components dating back to the mid-1980s,” said Andy Wong, General Manager of StandardAero’s Richmond location. “Additionally, he allowed us to perform short shaft balancing on the tail rotor, which is a direct result of his OEM partnership, which is a cornerstone of our business philosophy.”
The Airbus Shop in Richmond boasts an extensive in-house repair catalog of single parts. All of the company’s inspectors and certified mechanics have successfully completed the required Airbus BBOV training. This allows StandardAero to salvage parts for Airbus-specified repairs, reducing turnaround times while returning the original parts to the customer.
To maintain alignment with OEMs, the Airbus MRO Shop in Richmond completed an Airbus Special Process Audit in 2023 and received certification for more than a dozen key Airbus Special Processes.
“We believe that nothing is more important than ensuring our customers are mission-ready, and we extend our extensive restocking to all other dynamic component repair shops that do not have the in-house capability. We have made our processing capacity openly available,” Wong added. “At our Richmond location, we also welcome direct part repair requests from customers, and our engineers work closely with Airbus engineers to keep costs low and reliability high for operators. , we make every attempt to repair rather than replace parts.”
If you need a more suitable solution, StandardAero Richmond also offers a wide range of replacement components, from TGBs to Bevels to Epicyclics.
StandardAero Richmond is a Transport Canada, FAA and EASA approved site and is ISO 9001:2015 and AS9110C compliant and compliant with the latest standards. The site is currently in the final stages of obtaining ISO 14001 environmental management certification, which is expected to be completed by summer 2024. Visit StandardAero at booth #1922 at the annual 2024 HAI/Heli-Expo. The event will be held from February 27th to 29th at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
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