Top Flight Aviation
Call for Aircraft Maintenance: (843) 408-9555
Top Flight Aviation
Call for Aircraft Maintenance: (843) 408-9555
Call for Aircraft Maintenance: (843) 408-9555
Call for Aircraft Maintenance: (843) 408-9555
Rate $150 hour. Flat rate Prebuy’s
Bringing aircraft 20 years out of license back to service.
We use special scales to weigh your plane so that you can know your flying weight limits without worry
If your propeller is off balance it can cause vibrations which can not only fatigue you on long flights but damage your sensitive equipment and even sheet metal.
Using specialty digital software we get your continental fuel systems working better than ever.
we can arrange paint , do interiors and Avionics’s and bring your plane many years out of license back into service.
Installations | Top Overhauls | Diagnostics | Troubleshooting | Oil Changes
Sheet Metal Repairs | Window Replacements | Interior Installation
Installing Avionics | Troubleshooting | Autopilot Repairs
Engine Installations | Tire & Brake Changes | Strut Servicing | Troubleshooting
Got a headache plane you are tired of we buy and broker planes in or out of license.
Do you have a plane you no longer want and need to sell it? Call us we buy planes. Is your plane several years out of license and you don’t know what to do? We can get it flying at a reasonable cost depending on condition. We’ve gotten planes sitting in a field for 13 years flying in a week. We can either do the work or consult with your mechanic.
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For maintenance services not listed give us a call (843-408-9555).
Please reach us at Terry@top-flightaviation.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
It depends! Aircraft owners are allowed to do preventative maintenance, but most problems on a plane that might be labeled as complicated require an inspection by an IA/ A&P Mechanic.
Preventative maintenance includes things like oil changes removing and installing landing gear tires, and replacing and cleaning sparkplugs. However you must have been trained how to do those things.
For more info about what's allowed here's an FAA guide.
Even if a type of owner maintenance is allowed by the FAA it can be beneficial to have an A&P handle it because our eyes are trained to spot not just the work being done but any other issues that might be visible such as oil, fuel, exhaust and intake leaks.
This is a common concern and to answer it we need to compare apples to apples. When you get in your plane and take off you go to full power and remain there to at least a thousand feet and then folks typically run at 75% power from then on. This is with an air-cooled engine. Now imagine doing that in your car! Flooring it when you start and then running it at almost top speed all day. It would be more accurate to compare your use of your planes engine to a NASCAR. In spite of this well maintained aircraft are extremely reliable and safe. 99% of all engine failures in small planes is fuel mismanagement or running out of gas.
An A&P (Aircraft & Powerplant) is someone who has undergone training & schooling and recieved a certification from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) to sign off complicated repairs to aircraft.
An IA (Inspection Authorization) is an additional certification that A&P mechanics can recieve after minimum 3 years of A&P experience and after passing additional testing. An IA is necessary for signing off the airworthiness of major repairs or major alterations done to an aircraft.
This can often be caused by gaps in your engine baffling. The purpose of the baffling is to direct air over the engine as you fly. If there is a big hole or gap in your baffling, your engine is much more likely to overheat. This is an often overlooked problem that we've identified on many planes.
In the southern US where we operate, mud dauber wasp like to use pitot tubes to build nest. When your planes pitot tube becomes clogged with mud, ice or other debris it won't read correctly.
To clean out a pitot tube takes percision to not damage the sensative equipment so you should contact a mechanic. If this is your issue it is a quick fix when done by an experienced mechanic.
Terence Wray owner of Topflight has more than 45 years of experience as a line station representative, lead mechanic and RII inspector in part 121 aviation and as many years working after hours on small aircraft he owned or worked on. This includes director of maintenance of the Charlotte flying club and Charleston flying club. Bonanza expert, Cessna expert, piper expert, cirrus expert having worked on cirrus number 7 when they first came out. Multi engine and single engine instrument rated
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