Hi CL
From my experience of running several Part 145 MOs with a highly ethical approach to people & business, I suggest the following:
Get together a client base of potential customers who may consider jumping ship from their present Part 145 before approaching any 'money men'. There's plenty of idealistic engineers out there with the same idea, but no business plan.
Have you identified a location (hangar), and what are the costs involved.
Have you identified and priced up all your tooling and equipment - very expensive to support Eurocopter aircraft! A lot cheaper second hand tooling and equipment is available for Bell & Robinson aircraft.
Why not tag on to an existing AOC holder with a hangar, but you will still need to cost everything for them as above.
Do you have a suitable vehicle and basic tooling for 24/7 support?
Few of the many things to consider.
Good luck!
Last edited by Bondu121; 2nd Feb 2010 at 13:38.