Fleet Management: Aircraft, Models & Components

Register your fleet, set up inspection baselines, and track what's due.

Module: CAMO + Flight Ops · 20 steps

What You'll Learn

The Scenario

Your organisation operates a mixed fleet of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. Let's register the fleet, set up inspection baselines, and see how the system tracks what's due. By the end of this guide, you'll have aircraft in the system with inspections counting down automatically as flight hours are logged.

🔄 Role Perspective: CAMO Engineer — the Continuing Airworthiness team manages the fleet, models, inspections, and compliance. When a camo_engineer logs in, they land on this dashboard.
1 CAMO Dashboard

The CAMO dashboard is your daily starting point — fleet health KPIs, overdue inspection counts, active MEL items, and work order status at a glance. Red numbers mean someone needs to act today.

CAMO dashboard with fleet health KPIs

▲ The CAMO dashboard — red numbers mean someone needs to act today. Overdue inspections need work orders raised immediately.

2 Aircraft Models

Navigate to CAMO → Aircraft Models. Models define the aircraft type (Bell 412EP, Airbus H145, Cessna 172). Individual aircraft registrations are then linked to a model. Think of it as "model = type, registration = specific tail number."

Aircraft models list
3 Create a Model

Click New Model. Enter the manufacturer, model name, and type. Models are referenced when registering aircraft and when the onboarding wizard copies inspection templates.

Aircraft model creation form

▲ Aircraft models define the type. Individual aircraft (registrations) are then linked to a model.

4 Aircraft List

Navigate to CAMO → Aircraft. This is your fleet register — every aircraft with its registration, model, status, hours, and cycles. Status colours tell you at a glance: green = active, red = grounded, grey = stored/retired.

Aircraft fleet list with status badges

▲ Grounded and stored aircraft won't appear in active flight log dropdowns — the system enforces this automatically.

5 Register an Aircraft

Click New Aircraft. The registration is the unique tail number (e.g. VT-ACG). Hours and cycles entered here become the starting baseline — the system counts up from here as flight logs are added.

Aircraft registration form with annotated fields
Field Purpose
Registration (Tail No)Unique identifier — VT-xxx for Indian registered aircraft
ModelLinks to aircraft model — determines applicable task cards
Total Hours (TSN)Time Since New — starting airframe hours
Total Cycles (CSN)Cycles Since New — starting landing count
StatusActive / Grounded / Stored / Retired
CoA ExpiryCertificate of Airworthiness expiry — triggers reminders
Insurance ExpiryInsurance certificate expiry — triggers reminders
6 Aircraft Detail Page

Click any aircraft row to see its detail page — identity, flight data (current hours/cycles), certificates, installed components, and cross-links to flight logs, MELs, snags, work orders, inspections, and task history.

Aircraft detail page with status and related activity links

▲ The aircraft detail page is a hub — every related record is one click away via the cross-link cards.

7 Edit an Aircraft

From the detail page, click Edit to update hours, cycles, status, or certificate dates. Changes to hours/cycles are audit-logged. Status changes (e.g. grounding an aircraft) take effect immediately across all modules.

Aircraft edit form
8 Installed Components

The Components tab shows everything installed on this aircraft — engines, propellers, avionics, landing gear, APU. Each component tracks its own hours, cycles, and life limits independently of the airframe.

Aircraft installed components list
9 Component Status Overview

Navigate to Flight Ops → Component Status for a fleet-wide view of all tracked components. Health badges show CRITICAL (red), WARNING (amber), and OK (green) based on remaining life versus limits.

Component status overview with health badges
10 ATA Chapters

Navigate to CAMO → ATA Chapters. The ATA numbering system organises all maintenance tasks. Chapter 72 is Engine, Chapter 32 is Landing Gear, Chapter 21 is Air Conditioning, and so on. Task cards and inspections reference these chapters.

ATA chapters list
11 Create an ATA Chapter

The seed includes standard ATA chapters, but you can add custom ones for STCs or operator-specific systems.

ATA chapter creation form

▲ ATA chapters organise all maintenance tasks. Chapter 72 is Engine, Chapter 32 is Landing Gear, etc.

12 Inspection Schedule

Navigate to Flight Ops → Inspections. This is the inspection matrix — every scheduled check across all aircraft. Colour coding shows status: red = overdue, amber = due soon, green = OK. The Onboard Aircraft button bulk-creates inspections for new aircraft.

Inspection schedule matrix with colour-coded status
13 Inspection Detail

Click any inspection to see its full detail — intervals (hours, cycles, days), last done values, next due calculations, and remaining counters. The remaining values count down automatically as flight hours are logged.

Inspection detail page

▲ Remaining values count down automatically as flight hours are logged. When they hit zero, the inspection shows as overdue.

14 Edit an Inspection

Click Edit to modify intervals, last-done values, or remarks. Admin users must provide a reason for changes (DGCA compliance requirement). The reason is recorded in the audit log.

Inspection edit form with reason field
15 Create an Inspection

Click New Inspection to add a check manually. Select the aircraft, inspection type, and set the intervals. The "last done" fields establish the baseline from which remaining counters are calculated.

Inspection creation form — top section
Field Purpose
AircraftWhich aircraft this inspection applies to
Inspection TypeDaily, 100h, 200h, 500h, 1000h, annual, special
Interval HoursRepeat every N flight hours
Interval CyclesRepeat every N landings
Interval DaysCalendar interval (e.g. 365 = annual)
Last Done HoursAirframe hours when last performed — baseline
Last Done DateCalendar date when last performed — baseline
Inspection creation form — bottom section
17 Onboarding Wizard

Navigate to Flight Ops → Inspections → Onboard Aircraft. The wizard copies inspection schedules from an existing aircraft of the same model — no manual entry needed for your second Bell 412. Select the source aircraft, review the inspections to copy, and confirm.

Onboarding wizard for bulk inspection creation

▲ The onboarding wizard copies inspections from an existing aircraft of the same model — no manual entry needed for your second Bell 412.

18 Inspection Due Report

Navigate to CAMO → Reports → Inspection Due. This report drives daily planning — overdue items (red) need work orders raised immediately, due-soon items (amber) need scheduling, and OK items (green) are within limits.

Inspection due report with colour-coded status

▲ This report drives daily planning. Overdue items need work orders raised immediately.

19 Task History

Navigate to Flight Ops → Task History. Every completed inspection creates a task history entry — your permanent maintenance record. Filter by aircraft to see the full compliance timeline.

Task history timeline

▲ Every completed inspection creates a task history entry — your permanent maintenance record.

20 Operations Dashboard

The Admin Dashboard provides a high-level operational overview — flight logs to verify, open QA audits, unresolved findings, active MEL items, plus system stats (aircraft count, employees, vendors, parts). Quick action buttons link to common tasks.

Admin operations dashboard with KPIs and quick actions