American Airlines maintains over 400 aircraft annually at its maintenance base in Tulsa, Okla.
Aircraft maintenance technician Richard Cloud works on a CFM56-5BX/P engine at the American Airlines' Tech Ops in Tulsa on Tuesday, June 18, 2024. This 246-acre maintenance facility has over 5,000 workers.
It can take a month or longer to get an aircraft like a Boeing 737-800 undergoing its six-year maintenance inspection cycle back in the air. It can be longer if there is a serious repair needed. Sangricco said alongside the series of checks the airplane undergoes to head back out on its regular flight schedule, the work is checked by a second mechanic.
“We bring the aircraft in,” Sangricco said. “We completely open it up. We inspect everything depending on what that check is here for. We fix all the things that we find. We put the airplane back together again.”Then it is flown by specially trained pilots that are experts in operational issues if they arise. Some of the checks that maintenance performs can only be checked in the air, he said.Cracks, corrosion and other major maintenance issues are typically handled in Tulsa.
The cabin of an aircraft might appear to be straight and narrow to a passenger’s eye — seats, trays, bathrooms — but from the plane’s tail to nose and wingtip to wingtip, every floorboard, seat, piece of insulation is pulled up and revived when the plane reaches that age in its lifecycle. That lifecycle is about every six years, according to Roger Steele, a supervisor for base maintenance at American.
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