IO540
You will find the details of the use of aircraft parts from the USA in Airwothiness notice 17 para 4.4 its on the CAA website but I dont have the link.
Bluskis
I could tell you of two or three more that are suspect but not to this degree and not that I have had rock solid evidence of.
As to the bigger outfits they dont usualy produce bad work but on one occasion I stopped one of the biggest of them taking the wing off a PA34 for a cracked spar , the "crack" could be wiped off with a cloth it turned out to be a streak of grease thrown from a landing gear bearing !.
I do quite a bit of overseing maintenance for aircraft owners and i find that this works for both partys the owners get someone in there pay to keep the engineering companys honest and the engineers get someone who knows the business that they can talk to about the more difficult items.
Last edited by A and C; 9th Apr 2004 at 22:09.