ABOUT TRACE AVIATION

King Air Landing Gear Support

Landing Gear Is Our Specialty

Want to minimize your downtime? We maximize your aircraft usage by shipping overhauled Landing Gear that’s customized to your King Air Serial Number and configuration. You simply swap out your old gear with ours and ship us your gear back in the same secure shipping container. Unlike most overhaul shops, we provide the Attach Hardware which includes all the necessary installation hardware so you don’t have to worry about re-using questionable or old hardware.
Landing Gear
Landing Gear Is Our Specialty

Option #1: Exchange

The most popular choice for our customers.

Our Minimize Your Downtime Exchange Program was created for your convenience. We send you a completely overhauled set of King Air Landing Gear and the Attach Hardware that specifically fits your King Air Serial Number and configuration. There is essentially no downtime with our Exchange Program besides removing and installing the gear on your end.

*If you prefer to have your landing gear inspected before you receive an exchange set, this is also an option with the benefit of no core deposit and knowing the upfront cost beforehand.

Landing Gear Is Our Specialty

Option #2: Overhaul

Prefer to keep your landing gear?

Choose our Overhaul option. We will disassemble, clean, remove all paint, inspect, repair, assemble, and paint your King Air landing gear. All King Air landing gear includes freshly cad-plated or new attach hardware. This option requires no core deposit and generally takes around 2-3 weeks depending on repairs needed. We guarantee we’ll have your King Air landing gear better than new.

Always Included With Landing Gear Sets

Our Landing Gear set includes all components required to complete the 6 year/72 month Special Inspection requirements per Chapter 5 of Beechcraft King Air Maintenance Manuals and Chapter 32 of Component Maintenance Manuals.

  • Trace Aviation 8130-3
  • Attach Hardware
  • Technical Support
  • Post Installation Check-List

Frequently Asked Questions

Shipping us your gear

We can either send you a box or you can tie everything to a pallet and build a box around it. For shipping, you can use your freight company or we can supply you with prepaid shipping documents—check with us on this as we have reasonable rates with FedEx and other freight carriers.

Sending gear to you

Our shipping process is as quality as your landing gear. We pack your overhauled components so they’re safe and sound in a foam base that wraps and cushions the gear for a smooth delivery to your shop.

Core Deposit
Core deposit may be required. Contact us for more information.

Attach Hardware
Since all of our overhaul/exchange components come with new or freshly cad-plated attach hardware, we ask that you return all of your attach hardware with your landing gear.

Component Descriptions & Illustrations
90/200 Gearbox & Mechanical Actuators available upon request.

Landing Gear Illustration available upon request.

Charge-Backs
Charge backs are mostly unknown until we inspect your returned core components. In most cases, we can give you a ballpark estimate based on your past experience and normal wear items. We can discuss these items with you before you order your exchange components.

Upon inspection of your core landing gear components, there may be additional charges for discrepancies that are beyond the scope of a normal overhaul. Due to the many variations, dynamics, complexity, age, and history of each landing gear system, until your cores go through our inspection process, we can only estimate as to what you may expect in bill backs.

Quality Parts: Rather than replace condemned parts with only factory-new, our staff subscribes to online inventory websites to find cost effective replacement parts and pass the savings to you.

Failure to return all original hardware with core components can result in bill backs. Charge Backs will also occur upon finding missing, corroded, or cracked parts and parts worn beyond allowable limits. (Bushings, standard hardware excluded).

Tolerances

Phase Inspection: A tolerance of ± 20 hours is allowed. Each phase inspection must be completed within 20 hours of the prescribed time.

Special Inspection Items: Calendar Date Limited: A tolerance of ± 12 days per 12 calendar months is allowed, not to exceed a total of 60 calendar days.

Special Inspection Items: Flight Cycle Limited: A tolerance to ± 10% is allowed.

Special Inspection Items-Hourly Limited: A tolerance to ±10% is allowed.

Overhaul and Replacement Items: No tolerance allowed

Inspection Frequencies & Tolerances

Parts Main Frequency

Part

Main Landing Gear Shock Absorber

Main Landing Gear Drag Brace

Main Landing Gear Axle and Torque Knees

Nose Landing Gear Shock Absorber

Nose Landing Gear Drag Brace

Landing Gear Motor

Landing Gear Actuator

Landing Gear Actuator Clevis

Main Landing Gear Torque Knee AD 2002-01-10

Nose Landing Gear Axle and Fork AD 2004-23-02

Type

Inspect/Overhaul

Inspect/Overhaul

Inspect/Overhaul

Inspect/Overhaul

Inspect/Overhaul

Overhaul

End Playcheck

Hole Inspect

Inspect (if applicable)

Inspect (if applicable)

Frequency

every 8,000 cycles or 6 years

every 8,000 cycles or 6 years

every 8,000 cycles or 6 years

every 8,000 cycles or 6 years

every 8,000 cycles or 6 years

every 8,000 cycles or 6 years

every 1,000 cycles or 30 months

every 1,000 cycles

every 1,000 cycles or 2 years

every 200 hours

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Our History

PAG has continually grown the business to fit the needs of aerospace operators and fleet managers.