Precision Air Maintenance & Engineering (M&E)
Team that keeps us airborne and safe Precision Air M&E is the department responsible for providing maintenance and engineering services both for Precision Air and for third-party aircraft. Its primary purpose is to ensure that a proper system is in place in order to provide efficient aircraft maintenance and engineering services. This in turn allows our aircraft to operate safely and reliably with minimum down-time at a reasonable cost. Precision Air M&E was the first Approved Maintenance Organisation (AMO) to successfully undergo the five-phase AMO recertification process by the Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) according to the current regulations. The recertification process was completed and approval issued on 20 January 2016.
Hangar Aircraft base maintenance and engineering activities are performed at Precision Air’s modern hangar at Terminal 1 of Julius Nyerere International Airport. The hangar was officially opened by the nation’s then president, the Hon. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, on 27 July 2012. The maintenance hangar has 72 x 45 metres of space with a frontal ramp area of about
3,240 square metres for parking aircraft. Offices and stores cover about 540 square metres. The hangar is equipped with docking systems (movable scaffolds), a stand-by power generator, a compressor room, automatic fire-fighting equipment, aircraft jacks and a tow tractor.
Line maintenance Precision Air M&E provides line maintenance support to the aircraft of Precision Air and Tropical Air. The line maintenance stations are:
Scheduled periodic maintenance • Line maintenance checks • Pre-flight checks • Transit checks • Overnight checks • Weekly checks • Hangar maintenance checks • A-check • C-check • Calendar inspections.
Unscheduled maintenance
• DAR line station in Dar es Salaam (JNIA)
• Includes line and hangar defect troubleshooting and rectification.
• JRO line station in Kilimanjaro (KIA)
Workshops
• ZNZ line station in Zanzibar (under development).
There are dedicated workshops for the following aircraft components:
Aircraft maintenance Precision Air M&E has the capability and TCAA approval to perform scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and engineering services on the following types of aircraft:
• Wheels and brakes • Structure/sheet metal • Upholstery (cabin interior) • Batteries.
Keep in touch
• ATR 42/72-500 fitted with PW127M engines and 568F-1 propellers
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• ATR 42-320 fitted with PW121 engines and 14SF-5 propellers.
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