MAINTENANCE COST STUDIES OF PRESENT AIRCRAFT SUBSYSTEMS

This report describes two detailed studies of actual maintenance costs for present transport aircraft. The first part describes maintenance costs for jet transport aircraft broken down into subsystem costs according to an ATA classification. Multiple regression techniques were then used to demonstrate the construction of cost estimating formulae for both subsystems and a total aircraft system. The results indicate the possibility of improving present methods of estimating maintenance costs. The second part of this report briefly describes the results of an extremely detailed study of actual maintenance costs for the rotor and transmission systems of present commercial helicopters.

• Corporate Authors:

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  77 Massachusetts Avenue
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02139
• Authors:
  • Pearlman, C
  • Simpson, R W
• Publication Date: 1966-11

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Helicopters; Maintenance management; Multiple regression analysis
• Uncontrolled Terms: Maintenance costs
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00073671
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: FLIGHT TRANSPORTATION LABORATORY, MIT DEPT. OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS
• Report/Paper Numbers: FT-66-2
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 5 1974 12:00AM