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TWIN & TURBINE: So, you played a part in the company growing from an electrical MRO facility primarily serving the piston market to a business providing a wide range of MRO solutions for the King Air family of airframes?
SEAVEY: We are the largest King Air landing gear MRO shop in the world, and we have developed many additional product lines with the landing gear in order to provide the owners/operators of this great aircraft with more robust solutions. We provide MRO services for the drag legs, retract actuators, retract motor/gearbox, wheels, brakes, flap mo- tor/gearbox, flap actuators, mechani- cal trim actuators, control surfaces, ra- domes, exterior lights, tach generators, O2 cylinders, O2 regulators and crew O2 masks. Our Parker Stratoflex hose shop builds and ships King Air engine hose kits for every King Air/Super King Air model. In addition, our sister com- pany, Piedmont Propulsion Services in Winston Salem, North Carolina, provides MRO services for the propellers and prop governors for a wide range of turboprops.
TWIN & TURBINE: First Aviation Ser- vices acquired Aerospace Turbine Rotables in December 2009. How has that changed the business?
SEAVEY: A decade ago, our company was well recognized and appreciated for our diverse capabilities on the King Air. Today, we have expanded our portfolio to include Global Express, Challenger, Gulf- stream, Learjet, Pilatus and Phenom. Not only do we provide landing gear overhaul services for these airframes, but we also offer solutions for hydraulic system com- ponents, flutter dampers, safety equip- ment, lighting products and structures.
TWIN & TURBINE: Can you explain how your team embraces the concept of keeping operating costs down and flight hours up?
SEAVEY: In our segment, cost-effective repairs and healthy repair part supply chains are critical to success, and have been important elements of our business. We have made significant investments in both our pool stock of repaired parts and our OEM (original equipment manu- facturer) and PMA (Parts Manufacturer Approval) parts inventories. In fact,
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