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Choosing a Shop

The time will come when you’re faced with selecting the shop to do the majority of the maintenance on your airplane. Choosing we'll can mean the difference between a good ownership experience and a level of frustration that causes you to give up on aviation. In this article, we’ll give you suggestions on making your initial search, then how to narrow it down; a list of attributes of professional shops, guidelines for making your selection as we'll as shop practices that are red flag alerts to avoid.

The time will come when you’re faced with selecting the shop to do the majority of the maintenance on your airplane. Choosing we’ll can mean the difference between a good ownership experience and a level of frustration that causes you to give up on aviation.

In this article, we’ll give you suggestions on making your initial search, then how to narrow it down; a list of attributes of professional shops, guidelines for making your selection as we’ll as shop practices that are red flag alerts to avoid.

Rick Durden

Senior Editor Rick Durden has written for Aviation Consumer since 1994 and specializes in aviation law. Rick is an active CFII and holds an ATP with type ratings in the Douglas DC-3 and Cessna Citation. He is the author of The Thinking Pilot’s Flight Manual or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball Doing It, Vols. 1 & 2.