Dale Aviation

Dale Aviation is a privately owned aircraft maintenance company with its headquarters at Marcel Dassault Airport in Déols, France. It provides line maintenance, base maintenance, AOG support and logistics to airlines.

The company grew out of customer demand. Its customers wanted full in-house support, so it built that service. It holds a French Part 145 approval, a UK CAA Part 145 approval and a 2-REG approval. It also lists approvals for Cayman Islands and for Senegal. It says its strengths are high flexibility and round the clock availability.

Line maintenance covers the checks needed before a flight. These include arrival and departure checks, transit checks, daily checks, weekly checks and redelivery checks. The company also handles troubleshooting, defect fixes, component changes and minor repairs and modifications. It does post service paperwork and keeps the customer informed.

Its base maintenance station is at the Déols airport. Aircraft maintenance there covers limited base maintenance, C checks and A checks, plus out of phase tasks. The company also offers painting support, weight and balance work, care of stored aircraft, and dismantling and recycling.

For urgent jobs, Dale Aviation gives AOG support at any location in the world. This includes engine or APU replacements and borescope inspections of engines and APUs. It can also supply qualified and experienced staff.

The logistics side covers warehousing, spares management and inventory control. It has a storage facility for aircraft spares at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. It also has a facility at Châteauroux airport for spares and engines. It can provide material worldwide on request. The company also trains its own engineers and managers, including on-the-job training.

Line maintenance stations are at Paris Charles de Gaulle, Paris Orly, Bordeaux Mérignac, Nantes Atlantique, Bengaluru and Algiers. The customer list includes Air Caraibes, Air Corsica, Air Senegal, Corsair, KLM Air France, Lufthansa, Swiss and Vueling. A UK arm, Dale Aviation Ltd, is based in West Sussex.

Services

• Line maintenance
• Base maintenance
• A check and C check
• AOG support
• Engine and APU replacement
• Borescope inspections
• Aircraft painting support
• Weight and balance
• Aircraft storage care
• Aircraft dismantling and recycling