The extension of the service life of 16 Dash 8 aircraft, Widerøe’s most profitable project.
– exceeds all technical work done here in the workshops, initiated operations director Morten Skoglund with the celebration of Widerøe hangar at Langstranda in Bodø, writes Avisa Nordland.
Flight number 16 which has undergone a life-extension (ESP – Extension Service Program), was yesterday morning towed out of the hangar – ready for 40,000 new landings and departures.
A crazy idea
It is seven years since it Skoglund describes as “the crazy idea” to extend the aircraft’s life was launched. That same year, in 2008 the Board decided to go ahead and increase the life of the aircraft. And efforts should be made in the workshops of Bodø.
job should be done in close cooperation with aircraft manufacturer Bombardier, but additional service also requires approval by the European Aviation Safety Agency and Canadian aviation authorities.
The first aircraft is stripped down in winter 2012. The life will be increased from 80,000 take-offs and landings to 120,000.
option in 2012 was to buy new ATR aircraft. It would cost a billion, says Skoglund.
Now avoids away with 300 million.
The urgency
A historically strong profitability in what is also a historical project. For the first time that an operator performing such kind levetidsforelengelse in cooperation with Stans.
Technical Director Sture Pedersen complements the story that it actually was urgent. The fleet of aircraft serving STOL network began in 2012 to further his lifetime limit.
– We had 15 flights that had to go through the program, told Pedersen about the rush. The need to be clear on what needed to be done was certainly true.
Saget two
Pedersen is also clear that there is no “old plane” sent on its wings .
maintenance and modernization are extensive. An airplane was even sawed into pieces to find out how it could be weaknesses. Experiences with planes is levetidforlenget, described as very good.
– They perform better as measured by punctuality measured against aircraft which have not undergone ESP, he emphasizes.
pilots have also complained about aircraft that have passed through the expanded service.
– We have equipment into the hangar again because pilots think they are too “tight” to fly, a description that fits on going from an old car to the new car.
Life extension and purchase of used aircraft, enables Widerøe has a fleet machines that can operate STOL network until 2030.
In parallel with ESP dealer company also for the purchase of another aircraft. Widerøes considering four options, but fly for STOL operations until 2030.
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