About Our Company
In 1988, NAASCO Northeast Corp. began working closely with the engineering departments of several airlines to develop an affordable repair process for the costly relay contacts used on their Boeing 727 aircraft. After four years of testing and thousands of flight hours, NAASCO's innovative repair's proved to be flawless, opening the door for our unparalleled Sil-Met™ Technology Repair Solutions for electrical contacts, terminal boards and power relays. Since then, we have developed Sil-Met ™ repairs for relays on the Boeing 737, 747, 757, 767, the Douglas DC-8, DC-9, DC-10, MD-10, MD-11, MD-80 and MD-90, Airbus A300 series aircraft as well as a variety of regional, corporate and helicopter applications. NAASCO is focused on developing affordable repair solutions for many of the Main Power Relays fitted to Airbus aircraft as well as Regional Jets and Corporate aircraft. NAASCO's Sil-Met ™ Repairs have allowed operators to repair rather than replace expensive relays that were previously treated as consumables. Through NAASO's efforts Boeing and other OEM's recommended that relays be incorporated into a scheduled maintenance program rather than treated as "Fly to Failure". The net result has been a significant savings to operators in maintenance cost and a reduction of costly downtime on line and flight cancellations.
NAASCO developed ETR technology to extend brush life and reliability on a wide variety of starter generators. Our first major project was the Lucas/Goodrich 150-amp 23032-022 through 23032-048 units used on helicopters such as the BO-105, BK117, Bell 206, Hughes/MD 500 Series and most Eurocopter aircraft. At best, these units were only delivering 200 to 300 hours of reliability before requiring brush changes. With NAASCO's advanced ETR-20 ™ improvements, these units deliver 1000 hours of trouble-free, uninterrupted service. In most cases brush wear is less than 50%, whether installed on Air Ambulance, Military, Electronic News Gathering, Logging, Training, Off-Shore Oil Support, Sight-seeing or Agriculture aircraft. The 200, 250 and 300-amp starter generators have enjoyed the same reliability improvements.
In 1997, we were approached by Fairchild Aircraft to help them with their Metro Airliner starter generator reliability issues. Typically, these units were only getting 300 hours of service before requiring maintenance. Almost overnight, our enhanced ETR-20™ improvements gave new life to the 23079-Series, 300-SG series, allowing operators to achieve an unprecedented 1000 hours of service on only 35% brush wear.
NAASCO's latest and most significant ETR ™ improvement program is the ETR-25 Mercury Mod™. This modification is applicable to most APC 150 and 160 amp starter generators and consists of a replacement fan cover, drive and anti-drive end bells, ETR™ brushes and other proprietary internal improvements. These modified units also attain one thousand hours of uninterrupted service and reduced commutator wear.
Conclusion: NAASCO is an aggressive, technology driven company. Our pledge is to deliver the most reliable and economical product possible by applying new technology to components whether their design is decades old or new generation. Our experienced team is committed to provide superior reliability, quality, workmanship and customer service.