Unique: one tail dock for both narrow and wide body aircraft

In close collaboration with airlines and aircraft builders we designed an universal tail docking system to ensure faster, safer and sustainable maintenance for a whole range of aircraft types.

With our mobile tail dock you can perform inspections and maintenance to all the aircraft in your fleet. The dock can be repositioned or stored at any desired location in the hangar.

The tail dock consists of two main assemblies:

1. Mobile tower, equipped with a towbar for positioning the dock
2. Access platform for maintenance on vertical stabilizer. The platform has a height adjustment system with electrically driven spindles. The working platform can be raised and lowered to adjust the working height to the type of docked aircraft.

The maintenance platform has extendable floors, which can be retracted and extended. The floors closes the gap around the vertical stabilizer.

Optimal safety due to sensors

Underneath the platform, at the rear of each extendable floor, are sensors mounted to detect when the extendable floor is retracted. 2-D lasers scanners are mounted to monitor the presence of an aircraft and the laser scanners control the system so the maintenance platform won’t touch the aircraft.

Special features of the Universal Tail Dock:

• Self-propelled
• Height adjustable vertical stabilizer floor
• Sliding panels to fit the contour for safe and easy access

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