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22 4.1 Introduction Major facilities such as large manufacturing plants with a considerable amount and diversity of expensive equipment have formal maintenance programs and require a wide variety of types of maintenance, including preventive maintenance. General aviation airports generally do not have this same degree of focus on preventive maintenance due to a lack of awareness of what it involves and resource limitations.
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Preventive Maintenance -- An Overview 23 regulatory and airfield safety requirements and are discussed in detail in sources such as FAA Advisory Circulars. Operational maintenance will not be a subject of this primer.
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24 Preventive Maintenance at General Aviation Airports those systems used by pilots are functioning properly. Similarly, well-maintained fueling facilities and airport vehicles help improve safety for their users.
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Preventive Maintenance -- An Overview 25 It is difficult to quantify the specific monetary value of preventive maintenance for all infrastructure. The type of maintenance, the nature of the infrastructure, and various components of each system vary widely (e.g., roof, HVAC, motors, door hinges, pavement joints, drainage swales)
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26 Preventive Maintenance at General Aviation Airports 4.4 What Entities Are Involved with Preventive Maintenance? Preventive maintenance is not simply a program or responsibility placed on the shoulders of the airport manager to handle alone.
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Preventive Maintenance -- An Overview 27 Tenants and airport users can be important sources of information about the condition of facilities. A tenant that rents an airport-owned hangar should be encouraged to let airport management know when some aspect of the hangar needs attention -- for example, bearings on a door that are becoming noisy.
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28 Preventive Maintenance at General Aviation Airports Airports should do strategic planning when developing their annual budgets for preventive maintenance. This would include consideration of what the previously discussed plans indicate about the future use of infrastructure.
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