Every annual.Every airplane.

The annual inspection is the once-a-year check every certificated aircraft needs to stay airworthy. We work to manufacturer specifications and FAA inspection requirements, signed by an A&P with Inspection Authorization. You get a written squawk sheet, a plain-language logbook entry, and a phone call before we open anything we did not quote.

What is included: full airframe inspection, engine compression and oil filter cut, propeller hub and blade inspection, control surface and rigging check, landing gear and brake check, instrument and ELT test where applicable, AD compliance check against the FAA AD database, and a logbook entry that holds up to any subsequent IA reviewing your records. Squawk work is quoted separately and only authorized when you say yes.

AOG service is the difference between flying home tonight and waiting it out on a ramp. Sometimes that ramp is your home field, sometimes it is a strange FBO three states from your hangar. Either way, our mobile units are stocked for piston work and dispatched across the Southeast, with a stated response window that we hit. Call the AOG line any hour. Someone answers.

What we handle on a ramp call: dead battery, starter, alternator and electrical squawks, magneto issues, oil leaks, brake bleeds, tire changes, ignition timing, vacuum pump replacement, simple fuel system work, basic instrument swaps. What we will not do on a ramp call is sign off a finding that needs hangar time and a real teardown to verify. If your airplane needs more than a field repair we will get you ferry-permittable and home.

Alpha Company Aviation is a Robinson Authorized Service Center, authorized on the R44. The shop is staffed and tooled around the R44 family, and we maintain other helicopters too. We schedule and coordinate the 12-year and 2,200-hour overhaul cycle. Inspections, scheduled components, dynamic balancing, and Safety Notice tracking are all in-house.

This catalog page summarizes the R44 work. The full breakdown lives on the dedicated R44 page, including a multi-view blueprint, sticky anatomy walk-through, lifecycle clock, and vibration signature visualization. Look us up under Service Centers at robinsonheli.com.

A lot of our powerplant work is piston: Lycoming O-235, O-320, O-360, O-540, IO-540 and the equivalent Continental engines. Cylinder work, mag overhaul, ignition and fuel system, oil cooler, starter and alternator, prop strike inspection, intake and exhaust. The team handles it day in and day out.

We work on turbine and turboprop aircraft and engines too. Bring us the inspection, the fluid change, the squawk, or the bigger job, and we will dig in and help solve the problem, whatever it is. On the rare job that truly calls for a specialist, we pull one in and stay on the file from start to finish so nothing falls through the cracks. The full engines section on the home page covers the scope at a glance.