Aero Conducts Successful C-Check on Boeing B737 in Nigeria

Nigeria oldest carrier may have broken a jinx in Nigeria by successfully conducting successful C-check maintenance on a Boeing B737 and this signals that Nigerian airlines may heave a sigh of relief as they can be conducting their major checks at home and save themselves huge revenues going forward.

Aero on Thursday carried out test flight after conducting C-check on its aircraft at its recently approved Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility at the Murtala Mohammed Airport (MMA), Lagos on its Boeing 737 classics with the registration number 5N-BLG.

According to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the airline, Captain Ado Sanusi, what was exciting about the successful conduct of the checks was that after the test flight there was no sags noticed on the aircraft, unlike many of such exercise conducted overseas where test flight reveals a lot of snags.

“I am excited about this achievement because when we conduct c-check and do test flight overseas you will notice at least nine to 10 snags and we will spent another three to five days correcting the snags and even when you are coming back with the aircraft you will be noticing snags which is corrected on arrival. But this C-check is so successful that we did not notice any snag, just one little thing that should be adjusted,” Sanusi said.

He said that the next aircraft to be conducted C-check on, which is another Aero aircraft, has been moved into the hangar. After that there would be another C-check to be conducted on a third party aircraft; that is one owned by another airline.

“The maintenance schedule has been booked for the year. There is no space again for the year,” Sanusi happily said.