This Session is FULL. Please apply to the Fall or Winter Academies.

The ABS Maintenance Academy, designed and taught by ABS technical advisor and Beechcraft Maintenance Evaluator Bob Ripley, and co-taught by ABS technical advisor Dale Kraus, combines classroom and hands-on training covering common Beechcraft squawks found in ABS Air Safety Foundation Beechcraft Maintenance Evaluations (formerly; Service Clinics).  It teaches participants how to conduct an ABS Beechcraft Maintenance Evaluation on their customers' airplanes, including common squawks and how to address them, and includes special emphasis on Beechcraft landing gear inspection, rigging and repair as presented in the ABS Landing Gear Maintenance Guide. 

ABS Maintenance Academy sessions are held two to three times each year in locations around the country.  Space in each two-day Academy session is extremely limited - 20 students per course maximum - so every mechanic has time to personally train hands-on. Practicing Beechcraft mechanics must apply and be accepted to attend. 

An applicant must:

• be a certificated Airframe mechanic, or international equivalent, with IA highly desirable

• have at least five years verifiable experience maintaining piston general aviation aircraft

• be employed full time in a fixed-based facility that regularly maintains piston airplanes 

• be, or become, a member of the American Bonanza Society

An applicant may be required to pass a telephone interview as part of the selection process.

Location:
Cianchette Hangar
Beechcraft Heritage Museum
Tullahoma, TN

Typical Schedule (Subject to change):
Saturday
7:15 am - Registration begins
8:00 am -  Class/Lecture 
11:45 -1:00 pm - Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 pm - Lecture/hands on around the aircraft
3:00 - 5:00 pm - Switch and do the opposite of the slot before
6:00 pm - Class Dinner

Sunday
8:00 - 11:30 am - Classroom lecture
11:45 am - Dismissal and departure.

Hotel Suggestions:
Holiday Inn Express & Suites Tullahoma
2030 N Jackson St, Tullahoma, TN 37388
Phone: (931) 222-1414

Hampton Inn
1922 N Jackson St, Tullahoma, TN 37388
Phone: (931) 461-5222