Duncan Debuts Quick-Turnaround Maintenance Program
Nebraska company also delivers 250th paint job from new facility opened two years ago.

Aircraft service provider Duncan Aviation (Booth 208) has introduced what it calls the On-Target Turntime program. The goal: “getting customers back in the air faster” and ensuring accurate completion times for maintenance and repair work.

The first project completed under the program was a C-check inspection and due items along with EASy II provisioning for a Dassault Falcon 2000EX. Duncan finished the job in the promised 21 days, a full week faster than its usual time for this inspection.

To meet the deadline, Falcon crew leader R.J. Riedel and his teams at Duncan’s Battle Creek, Mich. facility planned for parts and equipment to be available when needed and shifted staff schedules to allow the work to continue nearly 24 hours a day.

Duncan says its 21-day inspection is available to operators of the Falcon 2000EX and 900EX series. Additional work–including avionics installations and Falcon wing tank modifications–can be performed simultaneously without increasing turnaround time.

In other Duncan Aviation news:

· The company recently published the fall 2014 iPad edition of its Duncan Debrief. The issue, which is available at no charge on Apple’s Newsstand, covers training, information about a Falcon 2000EX C-check, a reference poster showing upcoming avionics mandates and more.

· Duncan, which opened a 45,000-sq-ft paint shop in Lincoln, Neb., two years ago, announced that it has now painted 250 aircraft there. The facility, which can house multiple airplanes simultaneously, has painted Gulfstream 550s, Falcon 7Xs and other long-range business jets. Duncan has 250 employees on its paint teams in Lincoln and in Battle Creek, where it has completed thousands of paint jobs over the last few decades.

· The company has published the third edition of its “Business Jet Model/Market Summary,” which includes data about light, midsize and long-range jets based on information supplied by Vref Publishing’s Aircraft Value Reference, Conklin & de Decker Associates and aircraft manufacturers. The summary provides an easy way to evaluate parameters for a variety of business aircraft manufactured in the past decade and it is sorted by seats-full range. One-line descriptions of a dozen attributes are provided, and these range from price and cost to cabin volume, payload with full fuel, NBAA IFR seats full range and so forth. The summary is available from Duncan Aviation’s website or by contacting one of its sales resource specialists.