Aircraft maintenance checks
Aircraft maintenance checks are periodic inspections that have to be done on all commercial and civil aircraft after a certain amount of time or usage. Military aircraft normally follow specific maintenance programmes which may, or may not, be similar to those of commercial and civil operators.
A United States Navy SH-60F Seahawk helicopter undergoing routine maintenance in 2005
Transaero Boeing 757 undergoing C-check at the British Airways Engineering maintenance base, Heathrow (1996)
Aircraft maintenance is the performance of tasks required to ensure the continuing airworthiness of an aircraft or aircraft part, including overhaul, inspection, replacement, defect rectification, and the embodiment of modifications, compliance with airworthiness directives and repair.
An Airbus A321 from Iberia having its CFM56 changed
Technicians work on a Bombardier airplane in Dallas, Texas.
Field maintenance on a Cessna 172 being conducted from a van used to carry tools and parts
A Panavia Tornado undergoing maintenance