DC Aviation is launching its new cutting-edge wheel shop at its Maintenance Center at Stuttgart airport, offering its customers even more comprehensive services. These will now include repair and maintenance of main landing gear wheels and nose gear wheels. In the near future, DC Aviation will be in a position to perform maintenance work in the new wheel shop on the wheels of larger business jets.
DC Aviation already obtained C14 Approval for repair and maintenance of main gear and nose gear wheels in 2017. Currently, these types of services are performed for the Cessna Citation XLS, Bombardier Challenger 300/604/605/850, Bombardier Global 5000, and Gulfstream G650. DC Aviation plans to further expand these services.
To this end, DC Aviation has enlarged the capacity of the existing wheel shop and invested in state-of-the-art equipment. The floor of the new 77 m² area has been sealed with high-gloss epoxy sealer. The cutting-edge equipment includes two bead breakers to detach the rubber from rims of various sizes, a hydraulic lift for more ergonomic and effective work around the wheel, a rim washing machine, and a sand blasting cabin for preparing wheels for the detection of cracks.
