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Your aircraft may be older, but does this mean you have to replace it?
You’ll be amazed at what is possible.
Let’s start the discussion.
Savvy corporate jet buyers may purchase an aircraft with excellent pedigree but with a worn or outdated cabin. These aircraft are often attractively priced but may require refurbishment before entry into service. As the aircraft ages, its cabin begins to show signs of wear and the original, highly capable communications, entertainment and galley systems no longer meet an owner’s and their passenger’s expectations.
We perform professional assessment of the aircraft’s technical condition combined with a budgetary estimate for an innovative cabin redesign to provide the necessary facts to support a potential buyer’s decision.
Much like your office or your home, it’s time to modernise your aircraft. You may have owned your corporate jet since new and have decided that a refurbishment and systems upgrade is necessary. Your aircraft has been depreciated and newer models are expensive. In fact, refurbishing is quicker than outfitting a new aircraft. Whether a Bombardier, Airbus or Boeing, these aircraft are ideal candidates for an update. With the installation of performance modifications, upgrading of cabin systems and new exterior livery, it will be difficult to tell the difference between your jet and newer aircraft.
We are experts at corporate jet completion management and apply these skills equally well to cabin refurbishments. We assist our clients by assessing their aircraft, making experience-based recommendations on the refurbishment package. Camber manages the entire process from work scope definition and maintenance facility negotiations through to drawing reviews, technical oversight and final inspection prior to aircraft delivery.
We have the skills. All we need is your ideas and your jet.
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Head of State cabin completion management.
Heavy maintenance, technical compliance and redelivery management to OEM.
VIP Cabin completion management, green and completed aircraft acceptances, heavy maintenance and modification project.
Green aircraft and completed aircraft technical acceptance, cabin refurbishment, heavy maintenance oversight, aircraft survey and technical records review.
Tom Chatfield has over 35 years’ experience working with highly respected companies in the aviation industry. A trained avionics technician holding Transport Canada and EASA Aircraft Maintenance Engineer licences, with a MSc in Airline Transport Management from Cranfield University, Mr. Chatfield is characterised by his professionalism, technical insight and solutions-oriented approach.
In high school, Tom worked at a flying school to pay for his flying lessons. After gaining his pilot’s licence, he attended Canadore College before being hired by de Havilland Canada in 1986. Starting as a production flight test technician, he was fast-tracked into avionics engineering, later becoming de Havilland’s youngest international field service representative.
Tom joined Lufthansa’s partner, Contact Air, in 1992 to lead the Avionics Department and, later, to manage the Engineering and Maintenance Planning Teams. Recruited as Maintenance Manager in 2000 for DaimlerChrysler’s new corporate jet division, he led the team to achieve 100% dispatch reliability of its A319CJ during the first two years of daily trans-Atlantic business-class shuttle operations. Tom oversaw the maintenance, modification and AOG recovery of DaimlerChrysler’s global operation of Airbus, Global, Challenger, Falcon, Learjet and Cessna business jets.
A boutique leasing consultancy, Santos Dumont Aircraft Management, hired Tom in 2004 as VP Technical to develop processes and train specialists to support an impressive list of client airlines and leasing companies.
Qatar Airways’ offered an opportunity in 2009 to join the senior management team of its new business jet operation. Mr. Chatfield managed Qatar Executive’s technical operations, defining new aircraft specifications, overseeing completions and leading the team to receive Part 145, CAMO and Bombardier Service Center approvals.
In 2013, after 24 years of working abroad, Tom returned home to Canada to launch Camber Aviation Management with a trusted team of professionals to deliver technical advisory services and unique custom designed, world-class corporate and private aircraft to the high net worth, corporate and head of state clients worldwide.
Since January 2020, Mr. Chatfield is the CEO of Camber Aviation Management.
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