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April 02, 2020

To gain a better understanding of aircraft maintenance costs, the owner of an airplane needs to consider a few necessary factors, including how they utilize their planes, where they base their aircraft, usual flying routes, and how frequently they’re using it. Knowing answers to these fundamental questions is the key to making and adhering to effective airplane maintenance programs.

Proficient aircraft owners have good insight into potential problem areas present in their specific airplane type. They also take adequate measures to help safeguard crucial components and increase their useful lifespan. Different planes have diverse kinds of problem areas, and your selected aviation experts need to be well-experienced in a particular aircraft type in order to be an effective maintenance operation.

At Acorn Welding, our professional engineers and technicians are in a position to offer their accumulated fleet expertise to suggest and perform preventive maintenance for aircraft owners. However, we do observe some common yet easily preventable problem areas present in an aircraft maintained at our facility.

To give you in-depth insight into such issues, we present you with the top four easily avoidable maintenance issues as well as their solutions to help you avoid such problems from occurring to your aircraft.

Damaged Engine Fan Blades

At an airplane’s home base, frequent missions are undertaken, and continual exposure to harsh weather conditions like humidity and sand particles can severely affect your aircraft’s fan blades. These fan blades are an integral part of the engine, thus keeping them in a good state through regular inspections is a must.

You can prolong the useful life of each blade with the help of proper lubrication conducted at least once in a year.

Polluted AC Heat Exchangers

It's not important which part of the world your aircraft is based in; whether it’s scorching or freezing out there, air conditioning heat exchangers are a vital piece of equipment that helps in regulating the cabin temperature.

You must inspect and clean your airplane’s AC heat exchangers at least once every year to make sure that there are no faults left that could lead to the malfunctioning of these parts.

Fuel Tank Contamination

Considering the aircraft’s home base, and the kinds of missions performed by these private planes, we come across a lot of polluted fuel tanks, especially the ones that are based in humid environments.

It’s best to drain the fuel regularly and perform essential fuel sampling inspections for possible fuel tank contamination to overcome this issue.

Water Drainage During Winter

This type of problem commonly arises when aircraft owners don’t pay much attention to draining the water system of their planes. This leads to leakage in the water system due to broken parts such as pipes, taps, fittings, and heaters.

Such issues may result in un-planned, long, and extended ground time for your airplane. But, you can easily avoid this problem by following the water draining procedures, especially during winter operations, to prevent a future maintenance headache.

Acorn Welding specializes in aircraft maintenance tasks related to different types of welding processes, magnetic particle, and liquid penetrant inspections, and manufacturing various types of aircraft components. Visit our site for further information or contact us for personalized service.