Aviation access equipment
Rolling work platforms and access stairs, built to the aircraft you actually work on.
AeroStair supplies stock mobile stands for the heights that come up every day, and fabricates custom tooling platforms when the geometry does not fit anything in a catalog. Hangar, line maintenance, MRO and ground support.
What we build
Three families cover most of what a hangar needs. Everything is configured to a working height and a work area — not ordered off a shelf and made to fit.
Rolling work platforms
Mobile decks that put a technician at height with both hands free and a guardrail on every open side. Cantilever, straddle and ring configurations for wing, fuselage and engine work.
Access stairs and stands
Rolling stairs for door, hatch, flight deck and service-panel access. Fixed rise or adjustable, with the tread geometry set so people climb them the same way every time.
Custom tooling platforms
When the access problem is specific to your airframe, cell or tooling, we build to the contour. Cutouts, cradles, tool trays, power drops and FOD-conscious surfaces.
Cantilever
Straddle
Ring
Where these go to work
- Line maintenance and turnaround — fast, repeatable access at the gate or on the ramp
- Engine, nacelle and thrust reverser — access around the cowl without a lift tying up the bay
- Fuselage, wing and empennage — long runs of deck along a contour, not one ladder moved forty times
- Cargo hold and hatch — deck height matched to the sill so nobody steps up into a hold
- Flight deck and avionics — narrow-footprint stands that fit inside the aircraft envelope
- Paint, wash and composite repair — continuous deck coverage for a whole panel at once
- Ground support and fueling — over-wing and service-point access on the ramp
- Tooling and assembly cells — permanent work-area access built around a fixture
Stock or custom — how to tell which you need
Most shops over-buy custom and under-buy stock. Here is the honest split, and we will tell you which side you are on before you spend anything.
The height is common and the work area is open
- You need a working deck at a standard height and nothing has to nest against a contour
- The stand will move between several aircraft or several jobs
- You need it soon and lead time matters more than a perfect fit
- You are adding a second or third unit alongside something that already works
Stock costs less, ships sooner, and is easier to replace when a forklift finds it.
The gap between the deck and the work is the whole problem
- Technicians are leaning, reaching or standing on the top rail to reach the work
- The access point is inside a contour — a nacelle, a radome, a wing root, a fixture
- You are running the same job hundreds of times a year and want the setup gone
- Facility constraints drive it: door height, floor loading, hangar footprint, tow path
Custom costs more once and pays it back in setup time and in the injuries that never happen.
How a build goes
- Tell us the work, not the productWhat is being accessed, at what height, on what aircraft or equipment, and how often. A photo of somebody doing it badly today is worth more than a spec sheet.
- We come back with a configuration and a rangeUsually within two business days. If a stock unit does the job, we say so — we would rather sell you the cheaper thing that works.
- Drawing and rated capacity in writingDeck dimensions, working height, guardrail height, tread geometry, rated capacity and the design standard the build is dimensioned against. Your safety manager signs off on this, not on a brochure.
- Fabrication and finishWeldment, deck surface, casters and brakes, finish and markings. Options that matter in aviation — non-marring contact points, FOD-conscious surfaces, tow provisions — are called out, not assumed.
- Delivery and fit-upDelivered, and where it matters, set in place and checked against the aircraft before we call it done.
What we will and will not put on a web page
Aviation access equipment gets bought by people who are accountable when it fails. So we are specific about what a claim on this site means.
Every quote states the design standard the build is dimensioned against — OSHA 29 CFR 1910.23 for stairways and ladders, 1910.29 for guardrail and handrail systems, and ANSI-ASC A14.7 where a mobile ladder stand or platform is the right tool for the job. The rated capacity, guardrail height, tread depth and platform dimensions go on the drawing you receive with the quote.
What you will not find here is a blanket compliance badge. Whether a piece of access equipment is compliant depends on the configuration ordered and how it is used on your floor, and anybody who tells you otherwise on a landing page is selling you a sentence, not a stand.
Before you ask for a price, have these six answers
- Working height to the work, not to the floor
- Aircraft or equipment, and where on it
- How many people and how much tooling on the deck at once
- Does it have to nest against a contour, or stand off it
- Does it move between jobs, or live in one bay
- Door height, floor loading and tow path in your facility
Get a number on it
Tell us what you are trying to reach. We will come back with a configuration, a working height and a price range — or tell you straight that we are not the right shop for it.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 409-247-0321 or email sam@247ite.com.
Also serving loading and rail access. AeroStair is part of 247ITE, which builds gangways, loading platforms and fall protection for rail and truck loading operations. If your access problem is on the ground side, see safegangways.com.
Request a quote
Six fields. You get a real reply with a working height, a configuration and a price range — or a straight answer that we are not the right shop for it.