Originally Posted by
mtofell
I've often wondered about this - there must be plane-specific mechanics at all the airports to perform repairs. So, even if not an AS mechanic at least someone qualified to get the plane back in the air? The alternative would be getting a mechanic on a plane to the site of the "broken" plane which sounds expensive and time consuming.
I would imagine at all the larger outstations they have contracts for emergency maintenance and repair. But the parts chain is the real limiter. It’s one thing to have an A&P there to wrench on something, it’s another thing all together to have a stock of parts ready to go. So I could see a part having to be flown out, perhaps with an AS overseer to to the MX with the outstation contract help.
In a lot of the regional destinations I would imagine they have to fly parts and an MX crew out.
This is all speculation of course.