Denel Aviation - Rotary and Fixed-Wing Aircraft MRO Services

South African company Denel Aviation provides MRO services for both local and international rotary and fixed-wing aircraft.

ROTARY-WING AIRCRAFT MRO SERVICES

Our world-class rotary-wing aircraft division is fully equipped to provide maintenance, modifications, conversion-upgrades, and technical and logistic support for military and civilian rotary-wing aircraft.

We provide project-management services for aircraft upgrades, incorporation of airborne systems, conversions and modifications. Our logistics support includes operating and support information systems, technical publications, infrastructure and facilities, material support management, and ground support and test equipment.

Our engineering support for rotary-wing aircraft includes:

• Technical support
• Design expertise
• Configuration management
• Midlife upgrades
• Logistic support analysis and plans

ROTARY-WING AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE

We perform scheduled rotary-wing aircraft maintenance; structural repairs; aging aircraft programs; aircraft painting, repair and component-overhaul; trimming; safety equipment repair and testing; and corrosion prevention.

COMPONENT MRO SUPPORT WORKSHOPS

Our highly advanced component MRO support workshops perform repairs and overhauls of avionic, electrical, oxygen, mechanical-system and composite aircraft components. We also offer repair and calibration of aircraft ground-support and test equipment.

Services include:

• Complete stripping and re-painting of aircraft and components
• Routine touch-up during service intervals
• Decals and signage
• Corrosion prevention

We maintain, repair and overhaul main and tail rotor blades, and composite fairings, cowlings and similar composites.

D-LEVEL COMPONENT CAPABILITY

Our extensive D-level component capability includes:

• Comprehensive dynamic component support for Oryx, Puma and Rooivalk programmes
• Propeller assembly overhaul (C130 / L382)
• Hydraulics and pneumatic systems
• Landing gears
• Wheels and brakes
• D-level maintenance, repair and overhaul

Our large facilities have extensive test rig and specific tool capability. We possess a competent, experienced and multi-skilled labour force for both products and components.

Denel Aviation can adapt to accommodate new products and component types. We have agreements with major component OEMs for technical publications and support.

We can perform testing, repairs and overhauls of:

• Electrical systems and components
• Fuel pumps
• Lighting systems
• Starters and generators
• Avionic components, gyros and various LRUs (special-to-type testing)
• A wide range of general A/C instruments
• Oxygen cylinders (hydrostatic testing)
• Battery servicing, and ground-support equipment maintenance and repair

GROUND EQUIPMENT PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT

Support and development for ground equipment includes:

• Remote airport lights (portable)
• Constant Current Regulators (CCR) for airport lights
• Portable ground power units
• Bird repeller units for aircraft hangars

FIXED-WING AIRCRAFT TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Denel's fixed-wing aircraft division is a well-established aircraft technical support facility with sound, well-positioned infrastructure, offering a wide range of maintenance, repair and overhaul services for both military and commercial aircraft. These services include:

• Heavy maintenance
• Structural repairs
• Avionics upgrades and installations
• Modifications
• Ejection-seat servicing

FIXED-WING AND ROTARY-WING ENGINEERING SUPPORT

The fixed-wing and rotary-wing divisions are backed up by experienced engineering support services in the following disciplines:

• Airworthiness and aerodynamics for continued airworthiness
• Avionics and weapons-system engineering for aircraft upgrades
• Software engineering for airborne software
• Integrated Logistic Support (ILS)
• Reliability Availability Maintainability (RAM) engineering
• Information management (configuration management, technical publications and libraries)
• Flight-testing for development and maintenance

HELICOPTER ENGINEERING SUPPORT

We can also provide engineering support for helicopters. For Oryx helicopters, we have provided design authority, airframe upgrades, avionics, and interactive electronic technical manuals.

On-board systems, automatic flight-control system, avionics and weapons integration, flight testing, interactive electronic technical manuals, airborne systems, avionics and weapons systems, and mission planning have been provided for Rooivalk helicopters.

Other helicopter engineering services include:

• Airworthiness and aerodynamics
• Proprietary airflow analysis software
• CAD design and development tools
• Systems and software engineering facilities
• An embedded software development laboratory
• Flight testing
• State-of-the-art on-board instrumentation and recording capability
• Extensive configurable telemetry systems
• World-class test pilots and flight test engineers

ISO 9001:2000 CERTIFICATION

Our certifications include:

• ISO 9001:2000 (BVQi)
• AS 9100:2001 (aerospace standard – BVQI)
• SA CAA part 145 (AMO 262)
• EASA part 145 (EASA 00724)
• SANAS – calibration laboratory (ISO / IEC 17205)
• Eurocopter-accredited repair centre (O, I and D level)