STC BY KOSOLA TO MODIFY THE

 PIPER AIRCRAFT PA-46 SERIES ENGINE MOUNTS

TO PREVENT CRACKING OR FAILURE

 

Release Date: June 30, 2005

Albany, Georgia, USA

 

KOSOLA AND ASSOCIATES, INC., Albany, Georgia (USA) announces that STC SA02779AT has been issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the engine mount modification to prevent cracking or failure of the nose landing gear actuator attachment joint of the Piper PA-46 series engine mounts.  This amended STC pertains to the Piper PA-46-500TP engine mounts, P/N 102460 which is added to the approvals of the other PA-46 airplanes (PA-46-310P and PA-46-350P).  Inspecting your engine mount per Piper Service Bulletin No. 1103A and 1154 could result in you finding cracks in this attachment area.

 

Our STC redesigns and reinforces this attachment area so to help prevent future cracking or failure of this attachment joint.  Kosola has been receiving numerous inquires from operators concerning this cracking problem and the high cost and the long lead time in obtaining a new engine mount from Piper.

 

Send your engine mount for repair/modification to Kosola’s FAA approved repair station, the worlds largest engine mount/tubular steel component specialized repair station.  Turn around time is a few days and in some cases, we may have a modified engine mount in stock (on an exchanged basis) for “AOG” shipping.

 

For further information; and a free catalog of our other products and services, please contact us.

 

 

 

EXPANSION AT KOSOLA AND ASSOCIATES, INC.

 

Release Date:  May 12, 2004

Albany, Georgia, USA

 

KOSOLA AND ASSOCIATES, INC., Albany, Georgia (USA) announces the expansion of their facility located on Newton Road with the construction of a new 25,600 Ft2 building.  This new facility will be constructed on the present 5 acres of Kosola property, which has the Kosola manufacturing, FAA approved repair station and engineering buildings.  With this new expansion Kosola can further expand their aviation business.  Kosola and Associates, Inc. is the world’s largest FAA approved repair station repairing airplane engine mounts, tubular steel fuselages, landing gear ad other tubular steel products.  It was started in 1974 and the repair station has repaired over 30,000 components and has shipped these components throughout the world.  The manufacturing facility manufactures various airplane parts (shoulder harness kits, one-piece windshield kits, Piper spar kits, courier seats, window plugs for small general aviation and transport type airplanes).  Kosola also has installation centers for some of its products located in Michigan and Missouri in the U.S. plus in Canada, Australia, Argentina and Sweden.

 

The engineering facility has designers, draftsman, stress and test engineering including FAA Designated Engineering Representative (DER’s) and works with several major aircraft manufacturers.  Also their engineering staff works with some of the world’s largest and well-known airlines (British Airways, KLM, Safair, Transafrik, Lufthansa, Varig, All Nippon Airways, etc.) and some of the world’s leading modification centers and repair facilities in England, Italy and throughout the United States.  Kosola and Associates, Inc. also has a small satellite engineering office in Phoenix, Arizona with future plans of opening up an satellite engineering office in Rovaniemi, Finland so to be closer to our European customers.

 

Mr. Gonzalo Canseco has joined the Kosola and Associates, Inc. team from Cochabamba, Bolivia to work in their engineering department as a summer intern.  Mr. Canseco previously worked for LAB (Bolivian Airlines) and attends Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.

 

 

 

 

STC BY KOSOLA TO MODIFY THE

PIPER AIRCRAFT PA-46 ENGINE MOUNTS

TO PREVENT CRACKING OR FAILURE

 

Release Date:  February 5, 2004

Albany, Georgia, USA

 

KOSOLA AND ASSOCIATES, INC., Albany, Georgia (USA) announces that STC SA02779AT has been issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the engine mount modification to prevent cracking or failure of the nose landing gear actuator attachment joint of the Piper PA-46 engine mount.  This STC pertains to the Piper PA-46-310P and PA-46-350P engine mounts, P/N 84010-02 and 89137-02.  Inspecting your engine mount per Piper Service Bulletin No. 1103A could result in you finding cracks in this attachment area.

 

Our STC redesigns and reinforces this attachment area so to help prevent future cracking or failure of this attachment joint.  Kosola has been receiving numerous inquires from operators concerning this cracking problem and the high cost and the long lead time in obtaining a new engine mount from Piper.

 

Send your engine mount for repair/modification to Kosola’s FAA approved repair station, the worlds largest engine mount/tubular steel component specialized repair station.  Turn around time is a few days and in some cases, we may have a modified engine mount in stock (on an exchanged basis) for “AOG” shipping.

 

For more information visit the PA-46 Page.

 

KOSOLA AND ASSOCIATES, INC.

5601 Newton Rd., P.O. Box 3529

Albany , Georgia 31701 USA

 

 

 

PHONE (229) 435-4119 • FAX (229) 888-5766 • 1-800-4 KOSOLA