Maintenance, MEL & Fleet Management, Built for the Shop Floor
Aircraft Maintenance, MEL Deferrals & Fleet Management is part of AviationAlley. Most maintenance teams run the shop out of a whiteboard, a parts spreadsheet, a separate AD-tracking service, and a folder of return-to-service paperwork — none of which talk to each other or to the aircraft those records belong to. AviationAlley is aircraft maintenance and fleet management software designed to put work orders, parts inventory, MEL deferrals, airworthiness directives, and shop documents on the same aircraft record, so the people releasing the aircraft and the people dispatching it are looking at one current picture. It is built to bring your existing CAMP or Traxxall data in rather than make you re-enter it, and to compute an auditable, deterministic AOG-risk score for every tail — not a black-box AI guess. AviationAlley is a pre-launch product opening to a founding cohort of operators; this is the maintenance and fleet layer being built with those founding shops, not a generally available system operators run in production today.
The problem: the shop, the parts room, and the AD tracker never agree
A maintenance operation keeps the same information in four places that don't reconcile. The open work is on a whiteboard or a shared spreadsheet. Parts and reorder points live in a second spreadsheet that's only right until the next part is pulled.
Airworthiness directives and service bulletins sit in a separate compliance service like CAMP or Traxxall. And the return-to-service and weight-and-balance paperwork ends up in a binder or a drive that nobody updates the moment a job actually closes.
Because none of those sources point at the same aircraft record, the questions that decide whether a tail can fly are hard to answer fast. Which MEL items are deferred on this aircraft, and when does each one expire? Is the next inspection inside its window?
Is a part on order or do we need to ground it? Dispatch ends up releasing aircraft on stale information, and audit prep becomes a reconstruction project instead of an export.
- Open work tracked on a whiteboard or spreadsheet that's out of date the moment a job moves
- Parts counts and reorder thresholds kept by hand, so low-stock surprises ground aircraft
- AD/SB compliance lives in a separate service that doesn't connect to your own work orders or tails
- MEL deferrals tracked manually, with category expiry dates someone has to remember to recompute
- Return-to-service and W&B paperwork assembled from scratch each time, not from the job that just closed
- No single, auditable read on how close any one tail is to going out of service
How AviationAlley's maintenance suite is built to work
AviationAlley is designed around the aircraft as the system of record. Work orders carry priority, status, category, and an assignee; they consume parts straight from inventory and capture the notes and paperwork the job produces, so a closed work order is built to be a complete record rather than a line someone clears off a board.
Parts inventory is designed with per-part reorder thresholds, storage location, and a low-stock view, with vendors, purchase orders, and a receiving step so the parts room and the work floor read from the same counts.
MEL deferrals are built to handle the category math for you. A deferral opened against a catalog item is designed to roll its own expiry from the FAA category — A, B, C, or D — instead of a date someone computes by hand, and a dispatch-facing banner is built to surface what's deferred and what's expired before an aircraft is released.
Airworthiness directives and service bulletins come in through a bring-your-CAMP/Traxxall import pipeline: an upload-preview-commit flow that maps your exported rows, lets you review them, and then writes them onto your tails — so you keep the AD posture you already maintain without re-keying it. AviationAlley does not subscribe to a live AD/SB feed on your behalf; the directives you track are the ones you import.
Every aircraft is designed to carry a deterministic 0-to-100 AOG-risk score derived from auditable inputs — AD posture, the inspection clock, utilization, and aircraft age and total time — with the contributing factors shown, not hidden.
This is a rule engine with tunable, explainable math, not an AI prediction. (An optional written narration of an already-computed score can use Claude, and the score itself stands on its own without it.)
- Work orders with priority, status, category, and assignee that consume parts and capture RTS notes
- Parts inventory with reorder thresholds, locations, low-stock filter, vendors, POs, and receiving
- MEL catalog plus deferrals that auto-roll category A/B/C/D expiry, with a dispatch banner for what's deferred or expired
- AD/SB import pipeline — upload, preview, and commit your exported CAMP or Traxxall data onto your tails
- Deterministic 0-100 AOG-risk score per aircraft from AD posture, inspection clock, utilization, and age — with attributable factors, not a black box
- Fleet utilization and an aircraft program view: per-tail hours, inspection countdown, AD posture, and orphan-tail flags
What's included: shop documents and a fleet you can see
The maintenance suite is built to generate the paperwork the job produces from the job itself. A return-to-service / maintenance-release record and a weight-and-balance record sheet are designed to assemble from the work order and aircraft profile you already have, and an RTS can be saved as a draft against the aircraft rather than retyped into a separate document.
These are the shop's own return-to-service entries under 14 CFR 43.9; AviationAlley does not claim to issue an 8130-3, and 8130-3 e-signature is handled through a separate third-party integration, not built in.
Fleet and utilization tie the whole picture together. The aircraft program view is built to show per-tail hours flown, the inspection countdown, current AD posture, and tails that have drifted out of an active program — the same signals that feed the AOG-risk score — so a maintenance lead can see which aircraft needs attention next without opening four systems.
Because all of this lives on the same platform as dispatch, scheduling, and compliance, a deferral, a closed work order, or an updated AD is designed to flow into the views the rest of the operation already reads.
AviationAlley is opening to a founding cohort of operators whose real maintenance workflows shape this suite before public launch.
A dedicated Part 145 repair-station certificate layer — ratings and limitations, a self-evaluated capability list, RSQM document control, and 8130-3 return-to-service records — is a separate module in development, targeted for the first quarter of 2027, not part of the maintenance core that runs today.
- Return-to-service / maintenance-release records assembled from the work order, savable as a draft against the aircraft
- Weight-and-balance record sheets generated from the aircraft profile you already maintain
- The shop's own 14 CFR 43.9 entries — not an FAA Form 8130-3, which AviationAlley never issues or e-signs
- Aircraft program view: per-tail hours, inspection countdown, AD posture, and orphan-tail flags on one screen
- Deferrals, closed work orders, and updated ADs flowing into the dispatch, scheduling, and compliance views
- The Part 145 certificate layer (ratings, capability list, RSQM, 8130-3 records) is in development for Q1 2027 — not claimed as live
Frequently asked questions
Is the AOG-risk score an AI prediction?
No. The 0-to-100 AOG-risk score is a deterministic, explainable rule engine, not an AI model. It's computed from auditable inputs — AD posture, the inspection clock, utilization, and aircraft age and total time — and the contributing factors are shown rather than hidden. An optional plain-English narration of an already-computed score can use Claude, but the score itself stands on its own without it.
Does AviationAlley pull AD/SB data automatically, or do I bring my own?
You bring your own. AviationAlley does not subscribe to a live AD/SB feed on your behalf. Instead it provides an import pipeline — an upload, preview, and commit flow that maps your exported CAMP or Traxxall rows, lets you review them, and writes them onto your tails — so you keep the AD posture you already maintain without re-keying it. The directives you track are the ones you import.
Can AviationAlley issue an FAA Form 8130-3?
No. The return-to-service and weight-and-balance documents AviationAlley assembles are the shop's own maintenance-release entries under 14 CFR 43.9 — not an FAA Form 8130-3. AviationAlley does not issue or electronically sign an 8130-3; 8130-3 e-signature is handled through a separate third-party integration. A dedicated Part 145 certificate layer that includes 8130-3 return-to-service records is in development, targeted for the first quarter of 2027.