Four more piston aircraft have entered the BAS hangar, bringing a useful mix of cabin-class twin, light-twin, trainer and retractable-single components into the parts pipeline. This round includes a Cessna 340A, a rare Cessna T303 Crusader, a Piper PA-28-161 Warrior II and a Piper PA-24-250 Com …

A Cessna Citation 501 has entered the BAS turbine hangar with a recovery package that reaches well beyond the basic airframe. The aircraft carries two Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D-1A engines, Garmin GTN avionics, Sperry/Bendix equipment, landing gear components, thrust reversers, environmen …

Four airplanes arrived at the same destination for four very different reasons. This round brings a Cessna 421C Golden Eagle, Piper PA-24-260 Comanche, Rockwell Commander 112A and Beech 58 Baron into the BAS piston hangar. One simply reached the point where another expensive maintenance cycle s …

A Cessna 500 Citation has arrived in the BAS turbine shop, although this one needed considerably more than a flight plan to get here. After an off-runway excursion ended its flying career, the aircraft was de-winged on-site and transported to BAS by trailer. Underneath the unusual arrival is th …

Five very different aircraft are now moving through the BAS piston hangar: a Piper PA-24-250 Comanche, Piper PA-22-108 Colt, Cessna 177RG Cardinal RG, Cessna P210N Silver Eagle conversion and Cessna 421. The lineup stretches from a deliberately simple two-seat trainer to a pressurized cabin-cla …

The Swearingen SA-226T Merlin is now in the BAS turbine hangar and entering disassembly. This is a complex business turboprop with a deep aircraft-family history and plenty of systems to work through carefully. As BAS moves through the airframe, individual components will be identified, photogr …