Our state of the art facilities, combined with a team of highly skilled engineers, enable us to carry out all types of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance. We hold approvals from The Kenya Department of Civil Aviation which enables us to carry out maintenance on the Beech 1900, Beech 200 (King Air), Cessna 208 (Caravan) and majority of piston engine aircraft. Our maintenance facilities operate 24/7 days a week. The ALS team combines the highest number of licensed engineers at Wilson Airport. Our engineers offer varying engineering skills with different educational backgrounds including Kenyan License, UKCAA License, and FAA License. To keep up with the latest technologies, our maintenance personnel undergo recurrent training. We also have all the current technical publications that support our aircraft maintenance and equipment,by constant review and ensuring that updates are implemented on a timely basis.

We stock of most of the parts for the Beech 1900, Beech 200 (King Air), and Cessna 208 (Caravan), which enables us to offer up to 98% dispatch reliability. The major aircraft manufacturers and dealers such as Pratt and Whitney, Raytheon and Cessna back up our spare parts stock. All our spares originate from approved sources and are fully traceable. ALS employs the latest techniques in aircraft maintenance.

Our fully equipped and functional workshop and stores facility reduces aircraft downtime and facilitates safer, faster and efficient highly operations. Our maintenance capabilities include the following:

• Checks I, II, and III on piston engine aircraft.
• Phase inspections on BE1900, BE200 and C208.
• Hot Section Inspection (HSI) on PT6A series engines.
• Nozzle Cleaning.
• Airframe major and minor repairs.
• Propeller static and dynamic balancing using the latest digital equipment.
• Aircraft painting.
• Aircraft restoration.

Our maintenance facility is capable of conducting maintenance in accordance to approved maintenance schedules and programmes to the following aircraft, their associated engines, propellers and associated equipment

• Cessna 100 series piston engine
• Cessna 200 series piston engine
• Cessna 300 series piston engine
• Cessna 400 series piston engine
• Cessna 208 Caravan 1
• Cessna 406 Caravan 2
• Beechcraft King Air 200
• Beechcraft 1900
• Piper PA 34 series

In addition, ALS believes in strict quality control systems in its maintenance department.
The minimum standards of the quality control system are:

1. to monitor, report to management, the level of compliance with the organisation’s Manual of Procedures and Airworthiness requirements.
2. To correct any non-compliance identified and to implement actions to prevent the recurrence of such non-compliance; and
3. To present to management, for the purpose of review and implementing further corrective or preventive action, quality indicators such as audit reports, accidents, incidents, occurrences, customer complaints and personnel reports.

The Quality Control System in ALS Limited consists of the following;

a) Quality of Audit

Auditing is a function of a checking process and is done on a daily, weekly, monthly and bi-annual basis and scheduled on a basis of the status and importance of the activity.

The purpose of auditing is to ensure the attainment of the requisite product quality, the reduction, elimination and most importantly the prevention of deficiencies affecting quality.

This includes the scrutinization of manuals and procedures and the appraisal of the entire system to enable evaluation and assess for non-conformance and quality improvement.

To promote the reliability and safety within ALS LTD, a series of audit forms have been developed to assist with specific areas. However, audits may be carried out in any area when it is determined that the need arises.

b) Quality Audit of Aircraft

Q.A. Auditors are on a scheduled shift rotation to monitor the standards and quality of maintenance standards.

c) Quality Audit Remedial Action

Upon compilation of Audit Reports, the Report is forwarded to the supervisor of the department in question for his perusal. Audit forms contain sections for supervisor comment(s), follow up findings, and for final signature of the Chief Inspector. In these areas, rectification actions and recommendations is noted.