Sat, Sep 11, 2010
"Business As Usual" As Company Says Employees' Mechanic
Certificates Cover MRO Operations At Mesa Facilities.
In response to the unexpected
revocation of its repair station certificate by the FAA, Phoenix
Heliparts on Friday began the formal appeal of the agency's
actions to the National Transportation Safety Board. As the appeal
process unfolds, Phoenix says it will continue operations under its
employees' individual part 65 mechanic certificates.
Phoenix Heliparts president Tina Cannon, said, "Phoenix has made
aggressive moves starting two years ago to improve compliance with
critical facets of its repair station certificate; it installed new
senior management, rewrote the company's quality manual, and
voluntarily refrained from further maintenance under the repair
station certificate while undertaking these changes. As a result,
following our move to a completely new and expanded facility, FAA
inspectors performed an audit of the manuals and facility and
reissued the repair station certificate on June 21st of this
year. Consequently, this revocation action comes as a
complete surprise.
"The company is particularly gratified by the continued support
of its worldwide customer base. The aviation industry
understands that accusations by the government are easy to make and
extremely hard and time consuming to defend.
"To imply our work is unsafe, as
the FAA has done, is both wrong and harmful to our employees and
customers alike,' Cannon added. "Regardless of the FAA's actions
and accusations, the company has instituted a very solid quality
system and is using that system to ensure that its individually
certificated mechanics can prove that every step is taken in
accordance with the regulations."
Phoenix says its worldwide customers can rest assured the
company will present a vigorous defense, and in the meantime, the
quality workmanship it has provided in the past will continue
today, tomorrow and in the future.
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