Unique Skills
An experienced and authoritative team of technicians

We have a highly qualified team of maintenance professionals on staff to meet your maintenance and repair needs. Our technicians have a diverse skill set that allows them to perform a variety of functions ranging from basic care and inspection to assisting various manufacturers in research and design testing and obtaining supplemental type certificates. Our professionals are often called upon to perform consultation work with regard to experimental and supplementary type certified helicopters.

Essential Services

We are an authorized service center for Bell, MD, Robinson and Schweizer. Our 4 certified A&P mechanics are all manufacturer factory trained, two of which are Inspection Authorities (IAs). We perform all inspections and repairs on premises, as well as provide mechanics on a consultancy basis.

Research and Development

We are unique in our ability to provide support to companies performing R&D for their products; our team has years of experience assisting major manufacturers and independent engineers in developing and testing their products. We have helped many companies obtain their STC approvals for their products and know how to manage and provide support for R&D.

• Tested and tracked Helicopter Technology Company's (HTC) main and tail rotor blades for the MD500 — we proved these blades for their Supplemental Type Certificate (STC). We tested these blades under such a great variety of conditions that our mechanics and pilots have become quite exceptional at tracking blades correctly.
• Tested Apical's emergency pop-out floats for their Supplemental Type Certificate.
• Flight tested Northrup Grumman's unmanned Fire Scout helicopter and continue to provide mechanical support.

Other Testing

• Expert Opinions — Our knowledge of helicopters allows us to test components after accidents and other incidents and provide evaluations of their performance for litigation purposes.
• General Evaluations — pre-purchase inspection of pre-owned helicopters, end of lease inspections, contract service evaluations, etc.

Our Team

Our Director of Maintenance, Mike Koerber, has been around Palomar Airport since 1985 and has experience on a wide variety of aircraft and their operations ranging from Experimental to FAR 135 and 121 operations. He is dedicated to getting the job done right the first time and consistent in his ability to meet goals and deadlines as they come up.

Shop Foreman, Casey Rolaff, is a highly respected Helicopter Technician who also holds an Inspection Authorization. Casey has a long-standing career as a helicopter specialist. He can always be counted on to do the job right. He's been at Palomar since he worked at Flight Trails Helicopters when it was here.