Aerotek Aviation Engineering  

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Landing gear repair

Aerotek Aviation Engineering have over the last 12 – 18 months been involved in extending our premises to nearly double its original size and square footage.

This has been a very exciting period of growth in our company’s history. With much planning required and good will from all of its employees, helping out at weekends to make the transition of our processes from one unit to another.

After winning the Contract to overhaul and repair landing gear for the Army Missile and Aviation Command Aerotek are AMCOM prime contractors. They are also M7 Aerospace Prime contractors, for the Shorts SD3-60  C23B Military version, dating back to July 2005. It was evident that  larger premises would be required to deal with the significant increase in workflow expected in 2009/2010.

Aerotek took a long and measured view of this challenge and set about its task. While at the same time, ensuring that the quality and timeliness of its work did not impede the customers requirements.

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Aerotek have relocated all of its processes, including NDT ( non-destructive testing ), Engineering Inspection, component Painting, hydraulic assembly and aerospace hydraulic testing  into this new unit. Creating a bigger, brighter, and more organised work space for its team.  This has allowed the Aircraft Landing Gear overhaul and also the repair of Actuators, accumulators, shock absorbers and various hydraulic valves to be worked on with greater efficiency.

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As a guide, our non destructive testing capabilities have doubled, allowing Aerotek to test any aircraft wheel, or aircraft single part up to 3 ft square in its Dye penetrant bay. We also have the capability to perform Magnetic particle inspection MPI  on such items as Aircraft main landing gear sliding tubes shock absorbers up to 6 ft long, with a maximum amperage of 3000amps.

Our two hydraulic test rigs DTD585 mineral oil test rig or Skydrol 500B test rig have the capability of producing 4,500 psi at a flow rate of 45-55 litres per minute, with a hand pump capable of producing in excess of 10,000psi.

Our hydraulic Assembly and hydraulic testing bay has just recently done  its first BAe146 Nose Landing Gear overhaul, along with landing gear side stays, and Shock Absorbers, with great success.

This presented our Machining/engineering department with new aircraft test rigs jigs and fixtures manufacture, Our Inspection team had much larger units to dimensionally inspect than they had previously been used to.

Our hydraulic assembly and test engineers had to overcome working with high hydraulic pressure engineering, learning how to test new complex steering control valves and cylinders.

Aerotek Aviation Engineering t.+44 1202 665551