AerSale to provide maintenance services to NASA’s DC-8-72 flying laboratory

AerSale will be providing “C” check maintenance services for one of NASA’s Airborne Science Program workhorses – the DC-8-72 flying laboratory. The aircraft has been flown to AerSale’s maintenance facility in Roswell, New Mexico, where it is to undergo major inspection and maintenance servicing. AerSale will provide maintenance as part of the aircraft’s new Low Utilization Maintenance Plan, LUMP for short. The LUMP also marries basic maintenance, the Corrosion Prevention and Control Program (CPCP) and the Structural Significant Items (SSI) inspection program into a single maintenance plan for efficiency and safety. Boeing developed the LUMP program for NASA’s DC-8-72 based on a maintenance plan for aircraft that fly fewer than 1,200 hours annually. For NASA’s DC-8-72, this translates into periodic inspections that cost less and are more easily scheduled around science mission activities.