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PMA Sales Company Profile pma sales
Our heritage lies within aerospace manufacturing - specifically, the manufacturing of turbine engine and airframe pneumatic and fuel components. We are staffed by aerospace veterans and degreed professionals with various aerospace expertise. We also have a corps of FAA DERs and salesmen located throughout the United States, and will be expanding into offshore locations in the future.
We bring the skills and experiences of these veterans into focus when developing new pma'd components, and in the distribution of existing pma'd products. We view ourselves as a catalyst organization which accelerates the introduction of competitive, quality hardware into an aerospace after market full of niche monopolies.
PMA Sales was formally established in the year 2000, and already enjoys doing business with several major airlines within the United States, as well as component overhaul businesses from California to New York. Each of these customers has seen immediate cost savings and gained confidence in the high quality standards of our offerings. If you are an aircraft operator, or overhauler of aircraft equipment, bring us your technical and price challenges, and put our skills to the test. If you have components with marginal reliability, that have only one source of supply - PMA Sales is certain to be able to change the status quo for you and your organization!!
Mission Statement
PMA Sales develops and distributes FAA approved parts, primarily turbine engine and airframe components. This provides component
reliability and quality enhancements, as well as significant savings over traditional OEM pricing practices.
Facts or Fiction
Fiction:
PMAs are a new way for small companies to get into
the aircraft parts manufacturing business.
Fact: The FAA
has been granting PMAs for 38 years. The average PMA holder has about the
same number of employees as the average Type Certificate holder. "PMAs
hold approximately 33 percent of the parts aftermarket."
Fiction:
Quality and manufacturing control is less stringent
for PMA parts.
Fact: "Quality
control and manufacturing are appropriate to the sophistication and diversity
of parts the PMA holder produces; there are no significant inspection program
failures."
Fiction:
PMA parts must be of lower quality than the Type
Certificate parts since a PMA is easy to get.
Fact: "The
same airworthiness engineers administer and approve PMA design requests
that administer other aircraft certification functions, and the same manufacturing
inspectors administer and approve PMA manufacturing requests." Furthermore,
"FAA Aircraft Certification Offices now administer the PMA program
as a normal part of the aircraft certification process."
Fiction:
Original Type Certificate holder parts safer and
more reliable than PMA parts.
Fact: Ninety percent
(90%) of the PMAs granted are based upon a license agreement between the
Type Certificate holder and the PMA holder, or on an FAA engineering find
of identicality with the Type Certificate part. "There is no evidence
of a significant safety problem with PMA parts."
Fiction:
PMA parts are really counterfeits or bogus parts which cause safety problems.
Fact:: "There is no evidence of a
significant safety problem with PMA parts." However, "There is
a significant safety problem with bogus parts produced without PMA
approval, often as counterfeit Type Certificate holder parts."
Fiction:
Buying PMA parts really doesn't save money.
Fact: Competition,
once a PMA has been granted, causes the Type Certificate holder to reduce
its price 85% of the time, reducing the cost of repairs approximately 20
percent. Saving users 20% for 33% of aftermarket spare parts purchases.
The quotes were obtained from the 1984 and 1988 FAA COMSIS
studies commissioned by the FAA.
