History

The Aeroconcept engineering company for aviation technology and composite technology mbH was founded on May 5th 1994 by the graduate engineers Thomas Schäfer and Carsten Weber as a spin-off of the Institute of Plastics Processing at RWTH Aachen University. Entry in the commercial register under the HRB No. 5309 by the District Court of Aachen took place on June 8th 1994. Almost simultaneously the company was recognized as an aeronautical maintenance organization No.II - A 276 by the LBA on June 3rd 1994. The initial permission included all inspections at large changes, overhauls and major repairs to motor gliders and gliders in wood, and tube and fabric and fiber reinforced plastic constructions.

On June 11th 1996 the scope of recognition was extended to the review of components and assemblies in FRP construction of aircraft with a maximum take-off weight up to 2 tons for major changes, overhauls and major repairs.

While moving into the new building at the airfield Aachen-Merzbrück the company received the JAR 145 approval No. LBA.0272 as a maintenance facility for components and assemblies in FRP construction in all european, civil aircraft. The company is aiming for an additional approval as manufacturing and development company in the future

Activities

Besides the company's focus to the aeronautical section, the general fields of action are designing, manufacturing, maintaining and marketing of fiber-reinforced plastic structures.

Based on the initial projects in the sector of aircraft technology, the company successfully offers solutions in rail vehicle construction, mechanical engineering and wind turbines today. In 2011, the company employs more than 30 people.

Major repairs on aircraft structures

Besides the prototype manufacturing of aircraft components, AEROCONCEPT GmbH owns particular knowledge in repairing FRP structural components. Major repairs on gliders, powered gliders, aircraft and commercial aircraft are currently the dominant line of business. Thereby structures made of glas fibres, carbon fibres, aramid fibres, dyneema fibres or hybrids of those materials are being repaired.

Basis of all repairs are the Structural Repair Manuals (SRM) and the Maintenance Manuals (MM) published by the manufacturer. Especially in unplanned maintenance (aircraft-on-ground events, AOG), we provide exceptional flexibility. Due to the immense cost of an aircraft bound to the ground, a high range of flexibility as well as zero-error tolerance is generally the request of our customers. A demand AEROCONCEPT was always able to fulfill.