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Brazilian Aeronautical Maintenance: technical and geographical distribution

The aircraft maintenance activities are an essential part of the continued airworthiness, aiming both, civilian and military areas, to provide full service condition for the aircraft. The growth of air transportation in Brazil has demanded an industry of aircraft maintenance services able to support such expansive process, without any prejudice to the flight safety conditions. Some of the studies found in the literature review, explore the aircraft maintenance from perspectives that seek to improve the technical efficiency of the sector. For these reasons, the main goal of this paper is to expand knowledge about the aircraft maintenance industry in Brazil, exploring the information provided by the ANAC in order to build a scenario that reveals the geographical and technical distribution of the existing technical training niches. For this, this study starts discussing the basic concepts of maintenance activity in general and aviation in particular. Next, we consider the Brazilian regulatory context for the aircraft maintenance activity, emphasizing the certification domain. Finally, we examine the geographic distribution of aircraft maintenance companies in the country, identifying the companies’ distribution considering the various types of technical certification.

Aircraft maintenance; Technical training; Airworthiness; Certification


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