DAS began operations in December 2004, embodying an idea of Don Snodgrass, the company’s president.
Snodgrass worked on a process manual and submitted paperwork for FAA Part 145 repair station approval, and DAS received its air agency certificate in November 2005. DAS’s first job as a newly approved repair station was to fix a GII spoiler for Gulfstream’s Appleton facility; it still supports this contract.
Currently the MRO is operating out of a 26,500-sq-ft campus in Lancaster, Texas. It includes a 6,000-sq-ft bond shop dedicated to overhauling and repairing composite flight controls and structures.
The 6,000-sq-ft metal structure and paint shop has a full-size paint booth and a large walk-in oven and specialized equipment used to overhaul GII, GIII, GIV and GV/G550 thrust reversers. The company also uses the facility for projects such as replacing the upper and lower skins on Hawker leading edges, reskinning Gulfstream flaps and overhauling Challenger 300 and GIV inlets.
A third, 4,500-sq-ft building contains metal forming and cutting equipment, including two press breaks, a large sheet metal sheer, a 250-ton form press and all the tools and work space to build containers and packages for shipping completed parts.
The 4,000-sq-ft machine shop has extensive welding technology and complete four- and five-axis machining capability to build tooling and details for parts the MRO repairs because they are no longer available on the market.
DAS works on the Gulfstream G100, G150, G200, GII, GIII, GIV, GV and G550; all Hawker 125 series; Beechjet 400 and King Airs; Bombardier Challenger 300 and 600 series and Global Express; and all Learjets. The MRO also works on radomes, thrust reverser and engine panels for the Spey, Tay and BR710 engines, thrust reverser for the RB211-535 and the V2500-1A and -5A.
The FAA Part 145 and EASA-approved repair station currently has 41 employees, with three more full-time employees in Brazil who will staff a facility being built in São José dos Campos. DAS Brazil will be submitting an application for ANAC approval as soon as the building is completed.
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