Donecle announced that LATAM Airlines Group will use its automated drone solution to improve the efficiency and reliability of aircraft visual inspections during base maintenance for their A320 fleet.
- Donecle provides its drone to LATAM for heavy maintenance checks on its A320 fleet.
- The solution will help optimizing maintenance activities, increase workers’ safety and improve traceability of inspections.
- LATAM is Donecle’s first customer in Latin America.
Following a successful 3-month trial period, LATAM decided to integrate Donecle’s solution in its São Carlos site, one of the company’s main base maintenance sites. The drone will be used for visual inspections during heavy checks.
“We are very proud to count LATAM as a new customer and expand our operations in South America“, says Josselin Bequet, CEO and co-founder at Donecle. “The 3-month test was a key phase for LATAM to better understand the added-value of the drone and to anticipate the integration into their maintenance process. We are happy to now have the drone up and flying with LATAM and are committed to support them to make the most of the solution.”
The drone, which does not require a pilot thanks to its laser positioning technology, can automatically scan a narrowbody aircraft in less than one hour. In addition to time savings, the solution will improve safety conditions for LATAM’s workforce. The precise location of defects relative to the aircraft structure will help LATAM to optimise scheduling of repairs and job cards during checks.
The solution also contributes to a paperless process and to better traceability of inspections.
