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Circular economy in aviation and aerospace 2: retirement, storage and teardown

Storage and preservation programmes, storage sites and the return to service, the decision to part out, the teardown step by step, harvesting and the records each part needs, and running a teardown project and its yields. Part 2 of the Circular economy in aviation and aerospace series.

By Aerospace Garage Desk · In practice · 45 minutes · 24 narrated pages

What you will be able to do

  • ✓ Choose between parking and storage procedures, and describe how airframes, systems and engines are preserved and recorded while an aircraft waits.
  • ✓ Explain what a storage site must provide, which records and obligations continue in storage, and what a return-to-service check covers, using the G-WUKJ investigation.
  • ✓ Compare a whole-aircraft sale with a part-out using present values and a cautious case, and set a decision date from the monthly cost of waiting.
  • ✓ Plan a teardown from preparation to hulk handover, including the removal sequence, the identification plate rules, the critical path and the labour budget.
  • ✓ Build a harvest list with an expected-value test, and give every harvested part a removal record linked to the aircraft's records.
  • ✓ Run a teardown project with clear roles, measures and risk controls, and review its yield against plan.

Course content

Session 1 · Storage and preservation programmes

1.1

  1. Parking or storage: choosing the programme · free preview
  2. Preserving the airframe and systems
  3. Preserving engines and the auxiliary power unit
  4. From the investigation file: zero airspeed after twelve weeks parked
Session 2 · Storage sites, records and the return to service

1.2

  1. Choosing and running a storage site
  2. Keeping the aircraft airworthy on paper
  3. Coming back: the return-to-service check
  4. Worked example: the cost of waiting
Session 3 · The decision to part out

1.3

  1. Whole aircraft or sum of the parts
  2. What drives part-out value
  3. Timing, cash and the decision rule
  4. Worked example: part out or sell whole?
Session 4 · The teardown process step by step

1.4

  1. Before the first panel comes off
  2. The removal sequence
  3. After the harvest: closing the aircraft's life
  4. Worked example: planning the teardown schedule
Session 5 · Harvesting and the records each part needs

1.5

  1. Recap: when may a harvested part fly again?
  2. Building the harvest list
  3. The records chain: from aircraft to part
  4. Worked example: screening the harvest list
Session 6 · Running a teardown project and its yields

1.6

  1. Setting up the project
  2. Yields: where the money comes from, and when
  3. Risks and controls
  4. Worked example: the first annual yield review
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Who this course is for

  • Lessor asset managers and technical staff deciding whether a returned aircraft is stored, sold whole or parted out
  • MRO, storage-site and teardown teams who preserve aircraft, plan removals and keep the records that give each part its value
  • Parts traders, finance and project staff who must forecast part-out yield and track it against plan

You need: Circular economy in aviation and aerospace 1: foundations, or working experience with aircraft records or lease returns.

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