Aircraft Tool Hire Ltd

Aircraft Tool Hire Ltd rents aircraft tooling and test equipment to commercial airlines, aircraft lessors and maintenance organisations. Its main warehouse is at Cardiff International Airport in the United Kingdom, and it also operates from a newer facility in Sollenau, Austria, which supports European customers.

Equipment for hire

The company says its tool stores hold the latest avionic test equipment as well as airframe tooling. Categories listed on its website include:

• Aircraft jacks and engine stands
• Engine change tooling and landing gear tooling
• APU tooling and RAT test equipment
• Fuel system test equipment and fuel quantity testing
• Pitot static test equipment, navigation test equipment and transponder test equipment
• Loop resistance testing equipment and data reading and download units
• Airbus, Boeing and A330/A340 specific tooling, plus hand tools

Airframe tooling includes bootstrap kits, flying control hoists and slings. The website has a searchable catalogue where customers look up a tool by description or part number.

Customers and coverage

Tooling is inspected and calibrated and covers the wide-body and narrow-body ranges of Airbus, Boeing and Embraer aircraft types. The company says it has customers across six continents. A separate section of the website lists tools for sale.