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How MRO Teams Can Build Sustainable Capacity

Author Craig Bittner Guest: Anderw Walmsley
Date Oct. 09, 2026
Building MRO capacity takes more than increasing headcount. Explore how training, adaptability, trust, company culture, and visible career paths help turn workforce growth into reliable operational capability, and what that distinction means for the customers relying on it.

How Deeper Technical Understanding Creates Better Repair Options

Author Craig Bittner Guest: Manuel Losada
Date Oct. 02, 2026
Better repair decisions begin with understanding what actually failed. Explore how technical fundamentals, documentation, troubleshooting, engineering, hands-on experience, and repeatable testing help MRO teams identify more repair options and build stronger capability over time. This gets the post to a point where I think you can enter it into the site now without treating it as finished forever. When we come back for the second editorial pass, I would concentrate less on basic copyediting and more on three things: tightening any sections that overlap, deciding which of those three visuals are worth producing, and looking for one or two additional...

How Better Information Can Make Aircraft Teardowns More Efficient

Author Craig Bittner Guest: Mahesh Bhide
Date Sep. 25, 2026
As aircraft teardown activity grows, the aftermarket will need better ways to manage the information created by every asset. Explore how visibility, demand signals, cleaner data, and automation can help turn more teardown material into faster, more accurate decisions.

From Exposure to Opportunity: Building Aviation’s Next Generation

Author Craig Bittner Guest: Col. (Ret.) Samuel G. White III
Date Sep. 11, 2026
Aviation’s future workforce starts long before someone applies for a job. Young people first need to see the opportunities available, experience the industry up close, and gain access to the training, mentors, challenges, and support that can turn interest into a real path forward.

How to Ensure Sustainable MRO Growth

Author Craig Bittner Guest: Rob Lastra
Date Aug. 21, 2026
Growth is one of the clearest signs that good work is creating demand. But the practices that work naturally in a small operation can become less reliable as more people, customers, capabilities, and handoffs enter the system. Sustainable growth requires more than additional capacity. The foundation has to tighten. Ownership becomes clearer. Experience becomes process. Knowledge becomes teachable. Communication becomes more deliberate. Accountability gets built into the work instead of depending on proximity, memory, or instinct. The objective is not to bury a growing MRO in procedure. It is to use experience to create systems that help more people make...

Reliability in Aviation MRO: Building Customer Trust Through Transparency

Author Craig Bittner Guest: Christopher Vera
Date Aug. 07, 2026
Those commitments require transparency from the beginning. They also require an operation capable of carrying the promise through inspection, repair, documentation, packaging, and delivery. Conditions may change along the way. Supply-chain constraints may narrow the available options. New findings may affect the original plan. Customer needs may lead an organization toward capabilities it has not yet developed. Reliability does not depend on eliminating those changes. It depends on maintaining alignment between what the customer was promised, what the organization now knows, and what the process can realistically deliver. Trust grows when the customer can see that the promise and the...

Aircraft Asset Valuation: When the Best Deal Is the One You Walk Away From

Author Craig Bittner Guest: Bill Thompson
Date Jul. 28, 2026
Yet every winning bid creates a second question: Did the organization acquire an opportunity? Or did it acquire a burden? The answer depends on the integrity of the aircraft valuation model, the quality of its assumptions, the exit strategy behind the offer, and the organization’s ability to execute the plan. Because the strongest acquisition decisions are measured by the value they create. Sometimes, the most valuable decision is the one that keeps the organization from doing the deal. A Tighter Aircraft Asset Market Puts More Pressure on Every Assumption Aircraft delivery delays are extending demand for older fleets Commercial aviation...

Big-Shop Capacity. Small-Shop Agility.

Author Craig Bittner Guest: Mike Jones
Date Jul. 03, 2026
Large repair stations often bring scale, systems, capacity, inventory, staffing, and years of experience. Those advantages matter. They help support volume, absorb complexity, and serve customers across a wide range of needs. Focused repair shops can bring a different kind of strength: responsiveness, creativity, direct communication, targeted investment, and a closer connection to the specific problem in front of the customer. The lesson is not that one model is better than the other. The lesson is that the best repair partners learn from both. Large shops are strongest when they protect the urgency, ownership, and customer focus that smaller shops...
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