TAP Maintenance & Engineering - Aircraft Engines, Airframe and Components Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Services

TAP Maintenance & Engineering is the MRO facility of TAP Portugal, the Lisbon-based operator. Its portfolio of maintenance services includes the overhaul of CFM56-3, CFM56-5A, CFM56-5B, CFM56-5C and CFM56-7B, JT8, and RB211 engines; airframe maintenance on the Airbus A300-600, A310, A330, A340 and A320 families; and components maintenance, material support and engineering services.

TAP Maintenance & Engineering is a member of the Airbus MRO network.

AIRCRAFT INTEGRATED MAINTENANCE

For operators wishing to concentrate on their core business, having predictable maintenance costs and a single point of contact, TAP M&E can offer a customised range of services from full maintenance support to tailored packages of:

• Engine maintenance
• Aircraft maintenance (base and line)
• Components maintenance
• Engineering and planning services
• Material services
• Quality services

AIRCRAFT ENGINE MAINTENANCE

TAP Maintenance & Engineering's engine shop is a fully established MRO centre, with 40 years of accumulated experience in commercial aircraft engine maintenance. The company integrates high-quality engineers and technicians with an excellent operational, troubleshooting and repair / overhaul background in several types of engines.

TAP M&E provides repair and overhaul for CFM56-3, CFM56-5A, CFM56-5B, CFM56-5C, CFM56-7B, JT3D, JT8D (standard), RB211-524B4 and RB211-524D4 engines. We also offer engineering services, fleet management service, engine lease support, field team services, technical training, logistic assistance, and engine removal and installation services.

AIRCRAFT BASE MAINTENANCE

Base maintenance in Lisbon offers a vast span of services including A, B, C, IL and D checks; modifications; structural repairs; ageing programmes; cabin refurbishment; and stripping and painting. Three fully equipped hangars allow us to simultaneously accommodate up to eight narrow-body aircraft, or four wide-body and four narrow-body aircraft.

Our base maintenance services can be used on the Airbus A320 family, A300-600s, A310s, A330s and A340s, as well as Lockheed L1011s.

AIRCRAFT LINE MAINTENANCE

Our aircraft line maintenance department operates in all Portuguese international airports (Lisbon, Oporto, Faro and Funchal-Madeira Is) as well as in some other foreign locations (Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Salvador, Fortaleza, Recife in Brazil, and Luanda in Angola). It offers a vast span of services such as pre-flight, transit and daily checks, troubleshooting and malfunction corrections, engine trend monitoring, and pool agreements.

Those services are available for the Airbus A320 family, A310s, A330s and A340s, Boeing B737 Classics, MD80s and Lockheed L1011s.

AIRCRAFT COMPONENT MAINTENANCE

With a know-how accumulated over decades of supporting the TAP fleet and third party customers, the component shop offers overhaul, repair, test and modification for more than 7,000 components. In addition to an extensive shop capability, with a yearly output of over 23,000 LRUs, we offer engineering support, over the counter exchange and access to our stock.

A component capability list, which can be supplied on request, details our capability to test, repair and overhaul a wide range of components.

AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING AND PLANNING SERVICES

TAP M&E offer engineering services including engineering support during selection, specification and evaluation of used and new aircraft; technical support during pre-delivery preparation and documentation verification and acceptance for the issuance of a certificate of airworthiness; condition assessment of the airframe, landing gear and engines; analysis of airworthiness requirements and technical and documental support for ADs and SBs and other documentation.

Other services include:

• Maintenance programme development and approval support (based on MRB and manufacturers' MPD)
• Reliability analysis and development of reports according to the operator’s aircraft and systems configuration
• Design and approval of changes and minor repairs in avionics, structures, hydro-mechanical systems, electrical systems, cabin interiors, power plant, non-critical engine parts, thrust reversers and nacelles
• Maintenance programme control
• Inspection planning and control
• Work package preparation

MATERIAL SUPPORT

TAP M&E can provide material support in fields such as initial procurement advice; procurement and purchasing of material; access to a stock of consumables comprising more than 200,000 part numbers; material pooling; sale of certified material; and AOG desk service.

Other services include:

• Creation and management of consignment stocks at customers' locations
• Exchange or loan of LRUs
• Rotable control, including tracking
• Maintenance programme management
• Modification status control

QUALITY SERVICES

Quality services include: quality audits; calibration of standards, equipments and tools in electrical, electronic and mechanical units; non-destructive testing; physical and chemical laboratory analysis and environmental control.

EASA, FAA AND ISO 9001:2000 CERTIFICATIONS

TAP Maintenance & Engineering holds the following certifications:

• EASA approved maintenance organisation – PT.145.001
• EASA continuous airworthiness management organisation – P-01/92
• EASA maintenance training organisation – PT.147.001A
• EASA design organisation approved – EASA.21J.344
• FAA approved repair station – TAPY354I
• Quality management system approved per NP EN ISO 9001:2000 – PT-2000/CEP.1192