GKN Aerospace launches transparency aftermarket services

Garden Grove, California – GKN Aerospace’s transparencies manufacturing operation has launched its new Transparencies Aftermarket Service (TAS), focused on meeting the needs of commercial transport operators for even faster, more responsive, and more cost-effective cockpit and cabin window maintenance.

 

GKN Aerospace - TAS will offer a comprehensive window repair, framing and exchange service to airlines and freight carriers that can achieve up to 20% savings on their annual Air Transport Association Chapter code 56 (ATA 56) spend for commercial aircraft windows. Initially operating from the company’s transparencies manufacturing facility in Garden Grove, California, GKN Aerospace expects to open TAS facilities in Europe during 2016 and Asia by mid-2017.

 

The new TAS operation draws on GKN Aerospace’s strength in the aircraft transparencies market. Today, the company provides transparencies to almost all airlines. More than 2 million of its passenger cabin windows (PCW) are in service today as standard fit on all Boeing and Embraer aircraft, as well as a large portion of the Airbus fleet.

 

By fully exploiting this technology leadership, TAS will lower operator maintenance costs by: reducing the amount of inventory each must hold; offering highly cost-effective repair or replacement choices; speeding repair or replacement turn-around times; providing an ultra-reliable AOG (aircraft on the ground) maintenance repair and overhaul service with full FAA 145 and EASA repair station capabilities.

 

GKN Aerospace supports airlines such as Air Canada, Alitalia, American Airlines, British Airways, Delta Air Lines, Iberia, Lufthansa, UPS, and Fedex.