ABOUT TRACE AVIATION
King Air Landing Gear Support
Landing Gear Is Our Specialty
Option #1: Exchange
The most popular choice for our customers.
Our Minimize Your Downtime Exchange Program was created for your convenience. We send you a completely overhauled set of King Air Landing Gear and the Attach Hardware that specifically fits your King Air Serial Number and configuration. There is essentially no downtime with our Exchange Program besides removing and installing the gear on your end.
*If you prefer to have your landing gear inspected before you receive an exchange set, this is also an option with the benefit of no core deposit and knowing the upfront cost beforehand.
Option #2: Overhaul
Prefer to keep your landing gear?
Choose our Overhaul option. We will disassemble, clean, remove all paint, inspect, repair, assemble, and paint your King Air landing gear. All King Air landing gear includes freshly cad-plated or new attach hardware. This option requires no core deposit and generally takes around 2-3 weeks depending on repairs needed. We guarantee we’ll have your King Air landing gear better than new.
Always Included With Landing Gear Sets
Our Landing Gear set includes all components required to complete the 6 year/72 month Special Inspection requirements per Chapter 5 of Beechcraft King Air Maintenance Manuals and Chapter 32 of Component Maintenance Manuals.
- Trace Aviation 8130-3
- Attach Hardware
- Technical Support
- Post Installation Check-List
Frequently Asked Questions
Shipping us your gear
We can either send you a box or you can tie everything to a pallet and build a box around it. For shipping, you can use your freight company or we can supply you with prepaid shipping documents—check with us on this as we have reasonable rates with FedEx and other freight carriers.
Sending gear to you
Our shipping process is as quality as your landing gear. We pack your overhauled components so they’re safe and sound in a foam base that wraps and cushions the gear for a smooth delivery to your shop.
Core Deposit
Core deposit may be required. Contact us for more information.
Attach Hardware
Since all of our overhaul/exchange components come with new or freshly cad-plated attach hardware, we ask that you return all of your attach hardware with your landing gear.
Component Descriptions & Illustrations
90/200 Gearbox & Mechanical Actuators available upon request.
Landing Gear Illustration available upon request.
Charge-Backs
Charge backs are mostly unknown until we inspect your returned core components. In most cases, we can give you a ballpark estimate based on your past experience and normal wear items. We can discuss these items with you before you order your exchange components.
Upon inspection of your core landing gear components, there may be additional charges for discrepancies that are beyond the scope of a normal overhaul. Due to the many variations, dynamics, complexity, age, and history of each landing gear system, until your cores go through our inspection process, we can only estimate as to what you may expect in bill backs.
Quality Parts: Rather than replace condemned parts with only factory-new, our staff subscribes to online inventory websites to find cost effective replacement parts and pass the savings to you.
Failure to return all original hardware with core components can result in bill backs. Charge Backs will also occur upon finding missing, corroded, or cracked parts and parts worn beyond allowable limits. (Bushings, standard hardware excluded).
Tolerances
Phase Inspection: A tolerance of ± 20 hours is allowed. Each phase inspection must be completed within 20 hours of the prescribed time.
Special Inspection Items: Calendar Date Limited: A tolerance of ± 12 days per 12 calendar months is allowed, not to exceed a total of 60 calendar days.
Special Inspection Items: Flight Cycle Limited: A tolerance to ± 10% is allowed.
Special Inspection Items-Hourly Limited: A tolerance to ±10% is allowed.
Overhaul and Replacement Items: No tolerance allowed
Inspection Frequencies & Tolerances
Parts Main Frequency
Part
Main Landing Gear Shock Absorber
Main Landing Gear Drag Brace
Main Landing Gear Axle and Torque Knees
Nose Landing Gear Shock Absorber
Nose Landing Gear Drag Brace
Landing Gear Motor
Landing Gear Actuator
Landing Gear Actuator Clevis
Main Landing Gear Torque Knee AD 2002-01-10
Nose Landing Gear Axle and Fork AD 2004-23-02
Type
Inspect/Overhaul
Inspect/Overhaul
Inspect/Overhaul
Inspect/Overhaul
Inspect/Overhaul
Overhaul
End Playcheck
Hole Inspect
Inspect (if applicable)
Inspect (if applicable)
Frequency
every 8,000 cycles or 6 years
every 8,000 cycles or 6 years
every 8,000 cycles or 6 years
every 8,000 cycles or 6 years
every 8,000 cycles or 6 years
every 8,000 cycles or 6 years
every 1,000 cycles or 30 months
every 1,000 cycles
every 1,000 cycles or 2 years
every 200 hours
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PAG has continually grown the business to fit the needs of aerospace operators and fleet managers.