Flugwerkstatt Black Forest GmbH

Flugwerkstatt Black Forest GmbH is an aircraft workshop in Germany that calls itself the Black Forest Aircraft Company. It builds, repairs and restores aircraft, and it makes aircraft parts.

The company describes the workshop as a qualified master workshop with plenty of room for customer aircraft. The team works with wood, metal and stretched covering film. This means its services cover almost the whole range of aircraft building. Every job starts with a talk about what the customer needs. The team then agrees a cost plan and a time plan before work begins.

New builds and parts work are a main service. The shop can make a single part, a full assembly, an aircraft kit build or a complete aircraft. It makes parts in wood, metal and mixed construction. It also does welding to DIN ISO 24394 and aircraft fabric covering. Kit building is a cheaper and quicker way to own an aircraft, but it needs space, tools, know-how and time. The workshop takes over some or all of that work for customers who lack one of those four things.

Restoration and repair cover older aircraft and aircraft damaged in a hard landing. The team either repairs the damaged parts or, when that is not possible, rebuilds them to match the original.

The shop has a paint booth for aircraft and aircraft parts, and it rents the booth to other users. It also offers powder coating for small parts up to 105 cm by 55 cm by 50 cm in standard RAL colours. Customers deliver the parts taken apart, and the shop masks threads and contact surfaces. For aircraft that cannot reach the workshop, the company collects them on its own trailer from the nearby airfield at Winzeln-Schramberg and uses a mobile workshop.

Current jobs include a two-seat Vans RV-7A, a four-seat Vans RV-10 from a kit, undercarriage sheet metal for a Messerschmitt Me 108 Taifun and a Pietenpol Air Camper. The company also builds the Grouse 120 ultralight. One person can ready it in five minutes, and it fits on a trailer with a total weight under 750 kg. The company shows its aircraft at trade fairs, air shows and pilot meetings.

Services

• Aircraft new builds
• Aircraft kit building
• Aircraft repair
• Aircraft restoration
• Aircraft parts manufacturing
• Welding
• Aircraft fabric covering
• Aircraft painting
• Powder coating
• Aircraft pickup and mobile workshop