MODIFICATION CAPABILITIES

Alabama Aircraft Industries, Inc., (AAII – Birmingham) is a small business with the large scale capabilities in aircraft maintenance, modification and engineering normally associated with Original Equipment Manufacturers and large aerospace companies. We maintain a full quality program and are ISO 9001:2000, AS9100:2004, Rev. B registered. AAII - Birmingham maintains an extensive supplier base and exercises a comprehensive supply chain management capability. We actively seek to ally ourselves with other major aerospace suppliers to ensure we can offer a customer the most comprehensive and cost effective solution available.

AAII-Birmingham provides comprehensive solutions for a variety of aircraft types. From modification design efforts to speed line fleet upgrades AAII-Birmingham offers a one stop shop for design, installation, testing and kit manufacturing for fixed and rotary wing aircraft.

Aircraft Modifications Capabilities
•Avionics Upgrades
•Imbedded GPS Navigational Systems
•Ground Proximity Warning Systems (GPWS)
•Traffic Collision and Avoidance Systems TCAS
•Self Contained Navigational Systems (SCNS)
•Color Weather Radar Installation
•Conventional Instrumentation upgrade to Multi Functional Displays
•Battery Systems Upgrades
•Engine and Power Package Conversations
•Digital Automatic Flight Control Systems (DAFCS)
•Aircraft Electrical Systems Rewire
•Digital Clock Systems
•SATCOM Installation
•Wing (Center/Outer) refurbish and replacement
•Landing Gear Upgrades and Modification
•Lavatory upgrades and Installation
•APU/ACM Upgrades
•Structural Modifications and Upgrades
•Missile Warning and Air Defense Systems
•Technical Order Compliance (TCTO), (MWO), (Service &Technical Bulletins)
•Explosion Suppression Foam (ESF) Installation
•Function Check Flight and Flight Testing Operations
•Complete Depaint and Paint Operations
•Aircraft Weight and Balance
•Alignment and Asymmetry Checks

Support Shop Capabilities

•Fuel Cell Repair (Integral And Bladder)
•Major Sub Assembly Repair (Flight Controls, Doors, Ar Booms, Etc.)
•Tubing Manufacture
•Flight Control Cables
•Wheel And Brake Shop
•Landing Gear Assembly
•Compound Curve Skin Stretching
•Aluminum & Steel Welding
•CNC Machining
•Conventional Milling
•Vertical/Horizontal Boring
•Hydo Forming
•Steel And Aluminum Heat Treating
•Shot Peening
•Bead Blasting
•EPA Compliant Paint And De-paint
•Fastener Hole Cold Working
•Bushloc And Forcetec Tools
•Electrical Harness Shop
•Laser And Ink Jet Wire Marking
•Metal Plating Processes
•Cadmium Plating
•Embrittlement Relief
•Deoxidizing Of Aluminum
•Etching Of Aluminum
•Aluminum Chromate Conversion
•Anodizing Aluminum
•Anodize
•Steel Pickling
•Passivation Of Stainless Steel
•Phosphating Steel
•Brush Plating
•Vapor Degreaser - All Metals
•Electro Cleaners Steel & Magnesium
•Alkaline Cleaners - Aluminum
•Carbon Removers - Engine Parts
   »Non-Destructive Inspection
•Dye/Fluorescent Penetrant
•Eddy Current
•Radiographic
•Magnetic Particle
•Ultrasonic Inspection
•Engine Bore Scope
•Skin Waviness Testing
•MAUS lap seam inspections