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Hi Kevin again, as far as mobile detailing goes, I guess the question you have to ask is can you make it affordable enough for the aircraft owner and still make a buck and make it worth your time. Aircraft ownership involves a lot of maintenance costs, tiedown/hangar fees, costly insurance premiums, sales tax, yearly luxury property tax and then fuel fees. Once all that is paid, most guys try to save money anywhere they can, and most guys will wash/wax/detail their own plane because it's free- something they can actually do for themselves. Or then there are those owners who just let the plane sit out in the environment and let it deteriorate. As far as mobile maintenance goes, I do owner assisted annuals and charge about 2-300 bucks for it, depending on how much of the slave labor I actually have to do. If the owner does everything under my supervision, then I just charge 200 minimum. But, I work for an airline and I get to use our hangar and shops after hours as I need. Most airports (in California) will not allow anyone to come on the field with a "mobile truck" and do maintenance or annuals. The first reason is the liability- everyone who does maintenance on the airport has to carry a minimum of one million dollars insurance. The premium for that is about 1800 dollars every quarter- nearly 8000 annually. The second reason is that they want to steer the business to the established FBOs who have a proven record of honesty/safety, and who lease the hangars and pay the property taxes. In Fresno, the FBO owners will call the cops out when they see you, and on the first offense they just run you off. Anything after that they cuff you and impound your truck and tools. It happened here to a guy who was doing it. How far along are you in your schooling? I used to teach at an A & P school. I still have my DME rating for giving O & P tests. Jan Z Fresno CA ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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