Aging Aircraft Consulting, LLC (AACL) provides engineering support with a team of highly skilled, trained and seasoned professionals with a cumulative aircraft knowledge base of over two hundred years. The scope of the support effort includes a wide range of research, analyses, and technical expertise to include, but not limited to sustainment of Force Management (FM) and Reliability & Maintainability, Functional System Integrity Program (FSIP), Force Management Support (FMS), System Management Program, System Obsolescence Research, Wiring Integrity Reliability Enhancement Strategy (WIRES), Component Life Assessment, Feasibility Studies, Critical Safety Items , Program Depot Maintenance, Functional Check Flight, Engineering Disposition Analysis, Aircraft Availability Analysis, and Configuration Management. All areas of support are continuously monitored by the AACL professional staff and several areas are of particular interest to the engineering division and targeted by the AACL team on a daily basis and are as follows, FSIP, FMS, Supply Chain Management, WIRES, and Configuration Management.

All AACL investigators focus heavily on the FSIP program. The FSIP objective is to identify and evaluate solutions for functional system deficiencies which affect aircraft safety and operational capabilities. This is accomplished through early identification of potential problems and the means of risk mitigation (modification, repair, replacement, or inspection) for safety and mission critical elements, in order to maintain Operational Suitability, Safety and Effectiveness certification from the standpoint of the aircraft functional and management of weapon system life cycle cost.

Under the area of Force Management, AACL personnel monitor and make recommendations to the C-5 Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Form 202, Non-Conforming Technical Assistance Requests and Replies program. AACL personnel are system administrators that continually monitor the system and assist engineering with technical advice to resolve field and Depot level maintenance disposition. Administrators are responsible for spotting repeated trends and to utilize resources necessary for possible technical data revisions. Some of the Non-Conforming Technical Assistance Requests fall under the expertise of AACL’s Supply Chain Management personnel.

AACL’s Supply Chain Management personnel provide unrivaled expertise in utilization of legacy and commercial information systems used to obtain information which enhances supportability for Robins AFB weapon systems by collecting and identifying trends, problems, and supply concerns. Services & support provided help engineering management be proactive versus reactive to parts issue and limitations. AACL’s management of the surplus program (107/202/1912) ensures that every means of obtaining a part using normal supply procedures is explored before approving the purchase of surplus assets. Extensive research of parts certifications and tracers to include price comparison gives customers time to focus on other projects and helps save funds for other programs. AACL personnel provide real time status of surplus requests for all HQ AFMC MICAP requests providing worldwide Program Managers with timesaving decision results for aircrafts in the field and at Depot.

AACL also provides technical expertise in Wiring Integrity Reliability Enhancement Strategy and Configuration Management. AACL is focused on improving wiring system reliability, developing more effective maintenance troubleshooting techniques, improving electrical system component design & functionality, and performing root cause failure analysis to enhance wiring system performance. AACL participates with the 730 ACSG/GFEA in the Joint Service Wiring Action Group (JSWAG) and attends conferences and other appropriate activities as necessary. AACL provides note worthy assistance with Configuration Management of the C-5 Galaxy Aircraft by preparing any and all changes, additions, proposals that must be sent through the Configuration Control Board (CCB) for final approval or disapproval by the Chief Engineer. AACL personnel organize, prepare, set up, and run all chart presentations for the CCB and are responsible for gathering & preparing all necessary documentation being presented to the CCB for approval or disapproval.

AACL is an experienced provider of reverse engineering and/or re-engineering services. The value stream of increased reliability and availability of systems, components, and parts not currently available due to incorrect, incomplete or otherwise unavailable documentation as a result of obsolescence or non-support by the OEM is an important operational objective. AACL offers turn key product design, end to end solutions and audit performance metrics, all of which results in knowledge based engineering solutions, benchmarking “Best Practices”, and producing mean time between failure analyses.