Aviationscouts GmbH

aviationscouts GmbH is a cabin interiors specialist in Lichtenfels, Germany, near Nuremberg Airport. It started in 1998 as a purchasing office for aircraft spare parts and has grown into a company with 22 staff at its headquarters. It sources, stores, refurbishes, recycles and resells as-removed passenger seats and interiors for airlines, lessors, MROs and resellers, and operates the online marketplace aviationgate.com. According to its timeline, it merged with AES for AIX in 2024.

Products

• Surplus passenger seats from Recaro, B/E Aerospace, Geven, Weber, Zodiac, Acro, Safran and Zim Flugsitz, for Airbus, Boeing, ATR, Bombardier, Embraer and Fokker types
• More than 14,000 part numbers of cabin interiors for the A320, A330, A350 and B787 families, from overhead bins and PSU containers to ceiling panels and light covers
• Cabin attendant seats and replaceable IFE units, monitors and electronics in as-removed or serviceable condition
• Leather and fabric seat covers, 9G cushions and blanking plates
• Custom aircraft mock-ups for cabin simulators, exhibitions, film productions and training

Services

• Storage and logistics, with monthly storage and consignment arrangements per seat, handling and insurance
• Seat overhaul, dress cover and cushion changes, deep cleaning and inspect and repair as necessary in a Part 145 shop area with dry ice cleaning, handling up to four narrow-body shipsets at a time
• Integration of EASA Part 145, 21G and 21J partners for modifications, STCs, flammability, static and dynamic testing, approved LOPAs and IFE integration
• Seat and interior recycling, upcycling and outlet sales
• BOM building support for cabin reconfiguration and cargo conversion

Company facts

• EN 9100:2018 and ISO 9001:2015 certified, with certification dated February 2021
• Warehouse and shop space in Lichtenfels, stated as 6,500 square meters of seat stock and 18,000 square meters of total storage capacity after expansion
• Stock of more than 12,000 passenger seats across about 40 seat models listed on aviationgate.com
• Listed on parts marketplaces such as SATAIR, Locatory, ILS and PartsBase
• Address: Wendenstraße 40, 96215 Lichtenfels