Three Months of Successful Operation for New DC Aviation Wheel Shop

Three months ago, DC Aviation put its new Wheel Shop into operation at the maintenance center at Stuttgart Airport (EDDS). The new Wheel Shop offers customers more services for the repair and maintenance of main and nose landing gear wheels, as well as wheels of larger business jets.

Since 2017, DC Aviation has held its C14 approval for the repair and maintenance of main and nose landing gear wheels. Services in this area are currently being performed for the Cessna Citation XLS+, Bombardier Challenger 300/604/605/850, Bombardier Global Series and Gulfstream G650 models.

DC Aviation has significantly expanded the space capacity of its previous Wheel Shop and has invested in state-of-the-art equipment. The floor of the new 77 m2 area was sealed with high-gloss epoxy resin. The modern equipment includes two bead breakers for loosening the tires on smaller and larger wheels, a hydraulic lift for ergonomic and effective work on wheels, a rim washing machine, along with a sandblasting cabin to prepare wheels for crack testing. Due to demand, work is already underway to further expand the Wheel Shop, to enable work on Cessna CJ series and Gulfstream G500, G600 and G700 wheels.

In the DC Aviation Wheel Shop, each wheel goes through numerous stations until, after a thorough check in the final inspection, it is released and re-certified with an EASA Form 1.