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Travel restrictions, personal or business constraints may cause an owner to park their corporate jet for a period of time. If properly planned, your jet can be placed into short- or long-term storage until the aircraft can be gently woken from its sleep and reactiviated.
The time your jet is stored determines the preventative maintenance that needs to be performed to maintain its systems and appearance, as well as the time, effort and cost required to prepare it for flight. A well-planned storage program ensures a low-risk and lower cost reactivation.
Owners parking their corporate jet without adequate preparation or application of an approved storage program risk a time-consuming and often expensive process to prepare their aircraft for safe flight.
Camber has developed and managed effective storage programs that ensure an owner’s aircraft is well cared for when it isn’t flown. We manage the program, confirm all periodic checks are performed and, when the owner is ready to fly again, oversee the reactivation and test flights to assure the jet is fully capable once again.
Owners can rely on Camber to reactivate their aircraft following prolonged parking. We assess the aircraft, determine the work that needs to be performed, develop a detailed work package and then oversee the work to ensure that it is performed correctly, to a high quality standard, on-time and within the agreed budget. Occasionally the aircraft is parked at an airport that cannot perform the post-parking work package. In this case, Camber manages the process to safely ferry your aircraft to a qualified facility to perform the work package.
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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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