Another successful Weight & Balance Training Class!!

December 10, 2023

To Whom It May Concern

My name is ABDULLAH MASRUR, Principal Engineer of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, responsible to perform the Weighing and to ensure the Weight and Balance Solution for all types of aircraft of the fleet. I wanted to take the time to provide a reference letter for General Electrodynamics Corporation and to express my appreciation for understanding our challenge(s) faced with weight and balance of our aircraft.

By using the weighing scales of General Electrodynamics Corporation, Biman has presented a Weight and Balance solution for it’s aircraft exactly as was required by regulation. Biman had a growing obstacle with regard to weight and balance with fleet of B777-300ER, B787-8/9 Dreamliner, B737-800/900 and CHC8-Q400 aircraft. We weigh approximately eight (8) aircraft per year and increasing every month. Biman has very tight parameters of acceptance when weighing aircraft. So, repeatability and accuracy was a definite concern.

However, each weighing performed using our GEC scale system, both ‘Platform‘ and ‘On the Top of Jack’ type has been highly repeatable and extremely accurate; thus passing our acceptance criteria. GEC’s unique offering utilizing the AN60z wireless tablet auto-populates weight readings from each scale and scale position into our weighing record. This drastically reduces our weighing time and eliminates any human error while providing valid data to present to our regulatory and quality department who verifies each weigh. Biman Bangladesh Airlines is highly pleased to be a customer of GEC and know we have their full support if we need anything in the future.

 

ABDULLAH MASRUR         .

 

Principal Engineer, Maintenance Support

Biman Bangladesh Airlines

After 6 months of comprehensive analyses by the US Army, the Army Contracting Command in Huntsville, AL makes contract award to General Electrodynamics Corporation for IDIQ, (indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity) M&O Firm Fixed Price contract.  The requirements contract authorizes GEC to perform repair, overhaul and testing on the UH-64 Apache Searchlight. The required Product Verification Audit and other CDRL requirements will commence on or about 1 December 2022.  Following PVA, the contract authorizes a maximum of 1,500 units, including FMS assets for return to service that could reach a contract value of $1.8M. The FFP contract will run through August 2027.

PT Aero Technic, Batam Indonesia, purchases a second system from General Electrodynamics Corporation for GEC’s AN60z Wireless Aircraft Weighing System.  PT Batam’s Director of Maintenance states, “GEC’s aircraft weighing technology has proven to the best in the industry”. “We have owned GEC’s weighing equipment and other competitor’s equipment”. “For the last 12 years, we have found GEC’s aircraft scales using their piezo-sensors technology, is still giving us repeatable results of +/- .1% with each weighing”.  “GEC’s scales are very stable and extremely accurate, something we value in aircraft weight and CG verification”.  Very seldom do we have re-weighs as we experienced with shear guage technologies.  PT Batam is an MRO Subsidiary of the Lion Air Group.  The company provides heavy aircraft maintenance, including C and D checks at it’s hub Batam Hang Nadim Airport. Batam Aero Technic conducts MRO work on aircraft from the Lion Group and Lion Group’s overseas affiliates was well as work from third party customers.  See more information on GEC’s line of aircraft scales at www.gecscales.com or call GEC at 1800-551-6038.