Why use MAP?
As the aviation industry moves through the business cycles airlines respond by adding and grounding aircraft and engine capacity and by adjusting spare parts and ground equipment inventories. Banks, leasing companies and investors may reposes aircraft when an operator downsizes or goes bankrupt and returns assets to the investor.
These patterns are complicated by ageing and regulatory considerations that may require an airline or investor to ground an aircraft pending design changes or to ferry it to a less restrictive jurisdiction.
The litmus test for storage versus tear down is when the market value of the aircraft in service is higher than the total value of the individual engines plus the value of fast selling items. Aircraft do have some high value items that are slow to sell in the aftermarket and this needs to be taken into account as part of the decision. The storage decision will prevail when the aircraft has low time, when the market is expected to recover in the foreseeable future and when alternative uses are available for the aircraft such as conversion from passenger to cargo mode. In such circumstances the economic analysis will favor placing the aircraft in a care-and-maintenance storage program pending return to airline service.
MAP Asset Preservation, LLC
ENGINE STORAGE
The storage options availabe to engine owners includes leaving then on the wing out on the ramp which facilitates engine-runs and aircraft test flights.
Engines that are not on-wing can be stored in a variety of environments including cold storage. MAP has a cold storage facility that is suitable for this purpose.
RECORDS STORAGE
Two options are offered for records storage. They can be stored on the aircraft or in one of the MAP storage facilities.
AVIONICS STORAGE
High value avionics can benefit from storage in a cool, air conditioned environment that minizes moisture formation.
MAP can provide that capability to our client in our storage facilities.
Cold Room
CUSTOMS
Full customs servive is available on site for international arrivals and aircraft imports.
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Aircraft Storage
