Digitized business aircraft records provider Bluetail has launched a crowdsourcing platform through its website to recruit airframe and powerplant and other technicians as contractors for on-site record scanning at customer locations. 

Since March, the company has scanned nearly 100 jobs at customer locations instead of sending the records off to a Bluetail scanning site. And demand for its services is coming in part from operators who prefer onsite scanning. “Simply put, some operators just don’t want to take the risk of their highly valuable documents leaving their hangar,” explained Bluetail v-p Roy Gioconda. “The only way to solve the issue is to have more trained people available to go to them. That’s exactly what our crowdsourcing effort accomplishes. Customers have been extremely receptive to this new approach.”

So far, the company has had “numerous participants” in its crowdsourcing effort but wants to expand the reach of those services. “By crowdsourcing a team of experienced aircraft maintenance professionals, we can scale to all major aviation hubs, unlike others, which can only do one job at a time,” said Gioconda. “We have always offered the on-site scanning option, but with our expanding customer base driving increasing demand, we want to ensure we provide rapid nationwide response times.”

Interested technicians can sign up through a portal on Bluetail’s website.