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Why BAE Systems?
BAE Systems is a world leader in providing innovative support solutions, ensuring the safety and reliability of flight critical electronic systems. We have strategically located global service centers to comprehensively meet our customers’ requirements at all operational levels, supporting more than 16,500 aircraft and 30,000 engines worldwide.
Our design and manufacturing experience uniquely positions us to provide our customers with innovative overhaul and upgrade programs to repair critical components and extend the product life cycle.
Continuously delivering value
Trusted, long-term customer relationships
Lower cost of ownership
Focused on quick turn-around times
Continuously advancing technology to improve efficiency and reduce costs
Committed to product life cycle support
• Level 3 repair station
• 24/7 operations
• 33,000 square-foot facility
Current repair station capabilities
Fort Wayne, Indiana
• On-site assistance
• Customer service and support desk
• Technical publications/customer training
• Initial provisioning services
• Aircraft-On-Ground (AOG) service
• Services for spare parts and repairs
• Support facilities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Asia
Support you deserve from an original equipment manufacturer you can trust.
Our strategically located service centers have been established to meet our customers’ requirements at all operational levels.
Our service centers
• Certified FAA, EASA, and CAAC repair station
• Extensive spare parts distribution network
• Maintenance, repair, and overhaul for more than 700 customers
Manufacturing capabilities & facility infrastructure
• Product life extension processes
• 24/7/365 Aircraft-On-Ground (AOG) support
• Obsolescence management
• Enhanced repair capability
• 24/7/365 Aircraft-On-Ground (AOG) coverage
• Certified level 3 repair station for FAA, EASA, TCCA
• Provide maintenance, repairs, and spares support for more than 150 customers
• Perform 4,000+ repairs annually
• 11,900 square-foot facility
Rochester, Kent (UK)
• Industry leading turnaround time
• BAE Systems and Rockwell Collins technicians
• Highly experienced in the repair of air transport and commercial electronics products
• Nine certifications: CAAC, FAA, EASA, CAAS, Thai, Philippines, JCAB
• 3,200+ repairs performed each year
• Co-located with Collins Aerospace
Singapore
Service centers
Technical support
• Test equipment support
• Technical help desk integrated logistic support (ILS)
• 24/7 AOG support
Endicott, New York
• Controls and Avionics Solutions headquarters
Air Transport
Our design and manufacturing experience uniquely positions us to provide our customers with innovative factory overhaul and upgrade programs. We restore flight critical parts to meet our extensive original equipment manufacturer quality standards and extend the product life cycle.
We are committed to being a trusted partner for our customers, embracing an innovative mindset and leveraging our development expertise in high-integrity controls, avionics, and power management solutions.
BAE Systems’ extensive industry experience and innovative product portfolio enable us to create a technologically advanced and reliable flight control system. We have been developing and producing flight controls for more than 40 years, with an installed base of 15,000 aircraft.
Flight Control Systems
BAE Systems’ smart electronics streamline and simplify pilots’ control of the flight deck environment through intuitive, integrated technologies that ensure optimal aircraft performance. As the technological interface between pilots and their aircraft, the design and implementation of flight deck systems require a long-term, in-depth understanding of the challenges pilots face, and the capabilities under their control.
Flight Deck Systems
BAE Systems’ integrated approach to cabin management offers airlines the tools needed to effectively manage the entire cabin seamlessly with our modular, scalable solutions. Using a data storage module and a series of high-speed switches, our solution offers expandable memory of up to 64 TB and high-speed processing power. Along with our attendant control panel, designed to reduce the crew’s workload, we provide a complete end-to-end solution.
Cabin Management Systems
Extensive experience with avionics has enabled us to design a cabin system that offers the amenities and functionality that airlines require. Our dedicated service and support team provides line-fit and retrofit solutions for any platform. We strive to provide exemplary customer service by supporting our products from the day they leave the factory until their last day in service.
We continue to invest in developing new technology to provide pilots with an enhanced level of feedback and control, using lighter, simpler components that free up space and reduce fuel consumption. In addition, our advances in autonomous controls and electrification will further transform aviation.
Engine Systems
We continuously implement new technology to extend the product lifecycle, and increase the reliability and safety of our products. We are unmatched in the development and through-life support of EEC with proven performance on both fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft for commercial and military applications.
We specialize in the design, development, and production of Electronic Engine Controls (EEC) that optimize engine performance and efficiency. Our flight-critical controls work within the engine system to control engine operation, provide propulsion and electrical power, optimize fuel consumption, reduce emissions, and detect, announce, and mitigate failures.
Mounted on the engine fan case, our control systems endure continuous exposure in the harshest environments. For optimal performance in these extreme conditions, our products incorporate design, development, and manufacturing techniques based on extensive analysis and understanding of field performance data.
Our services
BAE Systems has a proven record of delivering support to help maximize in-service reliability. As the original equipment manufacturer, we are uniquely positioned to provide specialized engineering and support services, utilizing the latest technology to exploit information and data. We leverage our comprehensive design and performance history to deliver factory quality service and address full life cycle support options such as repairs, upgrades, overhauls, field service, and obsolescence management.
We offer a flexible portfolio of support services that can be tailored to meet each customer's evolving needs. Our services include technical customer support, readily available parts, repair services, depot services, and varying levels of performance-based logistics programs. We are there when you need us most, providing innovative solutions to get you back on the runway and ready for takeoff.
Our robust overhaul process has been developed through our extensive knowledge of harsh aerospace environments; design attributes, and repair history to improve the reliability of flight critical systems. We minimize fleet downtime with our flexible overhaul options that can fit into regularly scheduled engine maintenance.
Electronic overhaul
• Extend the warranty of flight critical electronics
• Avoid Aircraft-on-Ground (AoG) delays while mitigating costly, untimely failures
• Prolong the life of flight critical electronics
This comprehensive process helps customers:
• Minimizes unscheduled removals and future major failures
• Lowers maintenance costs and fleet disruptions
• Extends the serviceable lifetime
Why overhaul?
BAE Systems designs, develops, and manufactures highly reliable, full authority digital engine controls (FADEC) and supports them to ensure optimal performance throughout the technology's life cycle. Our robust overhaul process has been developed based upon extensive knowledge of severe engine environments, and design and repair history to increase the reliability of an aging FADEC.
FADEC overhaul
• Updates hardware and software for enhanced system performance, efficiency, and reliability
• Preemptive repairs lessen expensive in-service failures
• As-used basis
• Calendar basis
• Flight hour basis
Our asset management programs help our customers reduce spare inventory costs by providing access to our vast network of factory repair and replacement parts.
Asset management
Our global inventory pools cut turnaround time and improve service quality by minimizing points of failure, allowing our customers to achieve the highest levels of fleet readiness and availability at a lower cost.
Ask our team about our Product Support and Assurance Agreement (PPSA) provisioning handshake-leasing approaches.
Our technical help desk, test equipment, and integrated logistical support, as well as portable test solutions, allow us to prevent prolonged service times.
Test equipment and technical support
Backed by a global network of support, and an experienced, dedicated team with in-depth knowledge, we offer 24/7 service to prevent further delays and cancellations.
Aircraft-On-Ground (AOG) support
Located in multiple time zones around the globe, our regional sales directors advocate on your behalf by offering service alternatives that can help reduce life cycle costs.
Worldwide sales support
Meet the team
Maxime gained his PMP certification and is fluent in four languages. In his free time, Maxime enjoys spending time with his friends and family and playing soccer.
Maxime van der Voort is the Regional Director for the North East Americas, representing Controls and Avionics Solutions. He is a native of the Netherlands. From Toulouse, France, Maxime currently works remotely from his home in Miami, Fla. His experiences range from supplier quality manager to component single event repairs and long-term flight-hour pooling agreements at the aircraft OEM and other major aftermarket MROs.
Maxime Van der Voort
He earned degrees in Engineering and Chemistry from Syracuse University and the State University of New York at Oneonta. With a strong engineering background, Tim held commercial leadership roles for high technology focused companies such as IBM, Endicott Interconnect, and BAE Systems. He has numerous patents and several awards for technology development. Tim and his family live in Endicott, N.Y.
Tim is the Controls and Avionics Solutions program manager responsible for aftermarket asset sales (including exchanges, loans, leases, and pooling) as well as account services for specific long-term agreements.
Timothy Wells
Kerri Kunkel is a Strategic Market Analyst for Aftermarket Sales and Strategy within the BAE Systems Controls and Avionics Solutions organization in Endicott, N.Y. With the goal of introducing predictive and prescriptive analytic strategies to new applications, Kunkel joined the company in 2021, following her graduation from Syracuse University with a Master of Science in Business Analytics. In her free time, Kunkel enjoys traveling to sunny destinations, graphic designing, and trying new recipes.
Kerri Kunkel
Barbara, originally from Brazil, currently lives in her birth country and serves as the General Manager of BAE Systems Avionics Services. Barbara is married, with two small children, and in whatever free time she can get, she enjoys playing beach volleyball.
Barbara Valcuende is a Regional Director for Aftermarket at the BAE Systems Controls and Avionics Solutions business, overseeing the Western North America and Latin America regions. Barbara, who has a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Bristol, started her career with BAE Systems in the U.K. in 2008. She has since gathered experience in multiple functions, including contracts, finance, procurement, program management, and business development.
Barbara Valcuende de Almada
He worked on multiple commercial avionics development and production programs, with a focus for the last 15 years on promoting our civil airline aftermarket capabilities. Dave is a Senior Delegate to the International Airline Technical Pool and is a familiar face at MRO trade shows and conferences. Dave is married with a grown-up son. In his spare time, he restores and races historic Italian cars.
Dave Kingstone is Head of Business Development for Aftermarket and Airline Accounts at the BAE Systems Controls and Avionics Solutions business in Endicott, N.Y. Dave originally hails from Rochester, U.K., and started working with the company in 1980 before moving to Seattle, Wash. in 1995 to support the entry into service of the Boeing 777.
Dave Kingstone
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Brent Myers is Director of Aftermarket for BAE Systems, Controls and Avionics Solutions business. Brent is located in Fort Wayne, Ind. where he started his career more than 12 years ago in the Fort Wayne repair station as an engineer. He worked on numerous commercial avionics and FADEC programs in his career with a focus on commercial, product support, and MRO responsibilities supporting the aviation market.
Brent Myers
Brent is married with two children. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with friends and family, running, and biking.
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