GTI Aviation

Aircraft engine overhauls are required throughout the engine life cycle at varying intervals. These overhauls typically cost well north of $3 million and take over 75 days to complete before the engine is returned to the customer. Engine maintenance is essential for the engines overall reliability, as well as complying with regulatory requirements. In many cases engines are prematurely removed for overhaul, which results in a costly time consuming overhaul. To make matters worse, these premature removals result in the inability for the operator to minimize Life Limited Parts [LLPs] stub time [cycles remaining on LLPs]. Sadly, LLPs are the most expensive parts within the engine to be replaced, yet the operator required interval [cycles before next overhaul] necessitates their costly replacement.

There are numerous alternatives to these premature costly and time-consuming engine overhauls. Unfortunately, there is a significant void of either on-wing or near wing maintenance providers, as well as engine maintenance solutions. That is, there are numerous alternatives for overhauling engines, yet there is a void of both aviation experienced service providers and engine maintenance solutions to avoid these costly and time-consuming premature overhauls.

Gas Turbine Inspections is dedicated to alleviate operational disruptions, while providing cost-saving engine maintenance alternatives to our customers. Our objective is to enable the customer to achieve the engines intended interval, so they can properly manage their fleet and LLPs. Our reach is global in providing creative solutions to resolve, replace or repair engines to regulatory requirements either on wing or near-wing – thereby providing cost savings / avoidance.

“We take great pride in our ability to partner with our customers in providing quality and cost-effective solution to their operational disruption, so that they can either move millions of passengers or cargo to their destination every day,” says Tom Masters, Chief Operating Officer, GTI.

GTIs MRO services include borescope, borescope blending on the wing, bleed valve adjustments to resolve high exhaust gas temperature (EGT) issues, N1 probe replacement, component replacement, service bulletin incorporation, module-specific replacement, etc. GTI has the capability to resolve issues by replacing parts, incorporating service bulletins or repairing engines to meet regulatory compliance, either on-wing or near-wing.

GTI’s repair stations are both FAA and EASA-approved, and its capabilities run across multiple engine models from Pratt & Whitney to General Electric and Rolls Royce. Its founders have over 95 years’ experience in various capacities in aviation maintenance, including a collective 85 years of experience at Pratt & Whitney alone. Their tenure exposed them to the on-wing and near wing maintenance void, which they saw the opportunity to utilize approved technical data to provide cost-saving engine maintenance alternatives to customers. The GTI team also provides powerplant consulting services for developing the engine work scope, its management and cost control during overhaul.

GTI’s services have been of critical importance for many clients, including a cargo operator that was experiencing high EGT on two aircrafts. This issue would have caused the customer to remove the two planes from service prematurely, impacting their operations. Upon special borescope inspection, the GTI team diagnosed a broken mechanical linkage in the engine’s 2.5 bleed area. Because of this broken linkage, the bleed system could not operate properly -- resulting in high EGT. This engine diagnosis was enabled due to the extensive GTI engine experience, as sensors would not have detected this mechanical failure. GTI performed near-wing surgical strikes to repair the impacted engines, which corrected the EGT issue on the subject engines. Subsequently, both aircrafts returned to service, and premature engine overhauls were avoided.

GTI’s top-notch services are powered by its associates, who are the face of the company. The team of aviation experts is driven by its core values to provide customers with quality cost-effective maintenance solutions. Equipped with exceptional service capabilities, GTI is the go-to aviation maintenance service provider for effective and cost-saving turbine engine inspection, repair and maintenance solutions.