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| Dyn'Aviation gets the CAP type certificate |
| The type certificate for the CAP range has been allotted to DYN'AERO by Judgment of the Court of Dijon |
| Dyn'Aviation gets its POA |
Dyn' Aviation takes down its certificate of approval of production ; Tuesday March 17, 2009, by Gil Roy (automatic "Babelfish" translation)
On March 16, 2009, the Management of the safety of the civil aviation delivered to the manufacturer of Darois a POA (Production organization approval). This approval allows Dyn' Aviation and its Aerodif partner to begin the delivery from the first spare parts for the Apex planes.
Aerodif will dispatch its first deliveries on March 18, 2009, that is to say 48 hours only after the delivery by the Management of the safety of the civil aviation (DSAC) to Dyn' Aviation, of its approval of production (POA). This simultaneity shows that the organization set by Christophe Robin (Dyn' Aviation) and Pierre Labrosse (Aerodif) had been ready for a few weeks and that it awaited nothing any more but the green light of the administration to enter in action.
The first sendings of Aerodif will relate to cables. Pierre Labrosse currently affirms to have orders of some 4.000 parts from 300 different references coming from 110 workshops. As Dyn' Aviation obtains new STC (standard Supplemental certificate) the number of references available will increase.
A new stage in the resolution of the problem of the supply spare parts for the Apex planes was reached on March 16, 2009. However, this solution still will take several weeks before reaching its mode of cruising and in all the cases, it will not make it possible to treat the totality of the requests, in particular those concerning the complex parts continuation in case of broken machine. On the other hand, it will cover the servicing of the fleet. What of either constitutes a good news at the time when the weather becomes spring. |
 | The Aerodif solution |
The Aerodif solution for the spare parts of Robin aircraft, January 19, 2009, by Gil Roy (www.gilroy.fr) Automatic "Babelfish" translation
Pierre Labrosse (Aviapro) and Christophe Robin (Dyn' Aviation) presented, on January 16, 2009 at Darois, their project of distribution of spare parts of the Robin aircraft. The company should be operational at the end of January 2009.
It is in front of about fifty professionals of aeronautics (workshops of maintenance and suppliers) joined together at Darois, on January 16, 2009, that Pierre Labrosse (on the right on the photograph) and Christophe Robin (on the left) revealed the Aerodif company whose vocation is the distribution of spare parts for light aircraft. Their objective is to quickly reach a thousand of references with regard to the Robin aircraft. “We work in priority on the parts which are blocking for the users, i.e. screws and bolts, the cables, the connections, etc”, specifies Pierre Labrosse.
“It is obvious that to start we rather will work on the air filters that on a landing gear or a wing, but our objective is to propose a comprehensive solution. For that purpose, we will provide parts of occasion which we will have dismounted on aircraft”, explains Christophe Robin who considers, in particular, of taking these parts from Ecoflyers blocked on the ground following the bankruptcy of the German motor mechanic Thielert and the liquidation of Apex.
If the problem of the spare parts Apex became also acute today, it is because there was only one source of supply. Pierre Robin then Guy Pellissier defended a single monopoly in his kind and which one does not find in foreign Cessna, Piper and the other manufacturers. It is quite obvious that the new owner of CEAPR, holder of the rights on the Robin aircraft, does not intend to give it up and that he will make everything to defend this secure income.
In order to avoid being attacked for counterfeit, Pierre Labrosse and Christophe Robin decided to obtain an extension of certification (STC) for each part which they will put at their catalogue. It is obviously an additional cost which they will have to integrate and it is on this level that the financial aid promised by the Aeronautical French federation could intervene. Christophe Robin who through Dyn' Aviation should soon join together necessary approvals of design (DOA) and production (POA), affirms being in negotiation with FAA.
Aerodif which deals with the trade and logistics (the technical and lawful part incumbent with Dyn' Aviation) will place at the disposal of the workshops of maintenance as of the 21 or on January 22, 2009 a computer program of seizure on Internet. This new tool must make it possible to optimize the costs of management of the orders and stocks, to reduce the times of treatment. Even if this new way of proceeding imposed by Aerodif hustles their practices, the professionals of maintenance do not have the choice. They will have to use this tool which should save them time and which is the only solution up to now.
In spite of the mobilization of the teams of Aerodif and Dyn' Aviation (ten employees, old of Apex), the catalogue of spare parts will be constituted at the rate/rhythm of obtaining the STC. And during this time, the shortage of parts starts growing.
Gil Roy
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| Parts for Robin aircraft |
DYN' AVIATION plus AERODIF… In margin of the liquidation of Apex, Christophe Robin (Dyn' Aéro) is on the point of proposing spare parts of the Robin planes. The first forwardings are scheduled for mid-January 2009 with a progressive rise of the number of the references.
Window of its office, on the aerodrome of Dijon-Darois, Christophe Robin, the chairman of Dyn' Aviation has a unspoilable view on the installations of the Apex company, in sleep since September 30, 2008. Up today, this joint neighbor, is the only one to have addressed an official proposal for a recovery of part of the credits of Apex Aircraft, in fact the type certificate for the Cap range.
He also engaged three former wage earners of Apex, within his new business Dyn' Aviation. This company was created with an aim of marketing in the long term a certified version ELA (European light aircraft) of the four-seater MCR-4S. “This step is committed since more than one year on the bases of a strategic study drawn up with the support of the area of Burgundy for the development of the rural Pole of excellence of Dijon Darois”, explains Christophe Robin. “The chance of the calendar made that this creation arrived in concomitance with the liquidation of the Apex companies and the problems of the parts rising from these liquidations”. The estimated calendar has then been hurried.
Dyn' Aviation accelerated the steps to obtain its POA (approval of production). This essential approval to produce certified aircraft also will enable him to design and certify spare parts for the Robin planes. “Agreement of design under study also will allow us quickly to pass from the simplest parts (but also most) to increasingly complex parts. Christophe Robin announces that the first spare parts will be delivered as of January 2009. Marketing and distribution are entrusted to the Aérodif company, created for this aim, in Darois.
“A narrow study of the problems in progress showed that beyond the price of the parts, it is the quality of the distribution and the availability of those which is the principal factor guaranteeing a good exploitation of the aircraft”. It is a fact, the distribution of the spare parts appeared perfectible in the past. It was a recurring subject of complaints of the owners of planes Robin and Cap. To put the assets on its side, Dyn' Aviation chosed to dissociate production and logistics.
“Aerodif is a logistic platform which will ensure the client relationship and the distribution of the spare parts for the aircraft of the DynAero range, and the parts for the models of the old Robin aircraft progressively by obtaining the STC allowing their marketing”. Aerodif developed for submission to its future customers an accessible control program on Internet which will allow the recording and the follow-up of the orders, the visualization of stocks, the etc, delivery periods. The inauguration of the Aerodif company will take place on Friday January 16, 2009 as from 10 a.m. in the village hall of Dijon Darois.
Christophe Robin stresses that since the disappearance of Apex, he is “at the same time the only French manufacturer of aerobatic aircraft, and the only French manufacturer of "wooden and fabric” aircraft. While standing as a candidate with the resumption of the titles of industrial property of the Cap, it aims at supplementing its own range. He points out also his interest for the Robin planes while pointing out that the legal imbroglio does not make it possible to shortly consider a revival of the construction of the four-seater. “In the event of availability on the market of the DR 400 type certificate, a resumption of production, joint with a significant resumption of the personnel, is in the paperboards”.
Gil Roy (www.gilroy.fr)
Automatic "Babelfish" translation
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