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Custom tooling platforms and access built to your airframe

When the gap between the deck and the work is the whole problem, a catalog will not close it. We build to the contour, the cell and the facility.

Start a custom build What we need from you

What custom actually means here

Not a catalog unit with a different paint code. Custom means the deck line, the cutouts and the footprint are drawn around your work.

Contour-matched decks

Cutouts and edge profiles that follow the airframe so the gap between deck and skin is closed, not bridged with a board.

Fixture and cell integration

Access designed around the tooling that is already in the cell, including power drops, air, lighting and tool storage.

Facility-constrained builds

Door height, floor loading, hangar footprint, tow path and storage between jobs, treated as design inputs rather than surprises.

Knock-down and segmented

Platforms that break down for storage or transport when a bay serves several jobs a week.

Repeat-job optimization

If you run the same task hundreds of times a year, the setup time is the cost. We design to remove the setup, not just the reach.

Retrofit and rework

Existing stands that no longer fit the fleet can often be modified — new deck, new cutout, new guarding — for a fraction of replacement.

Cantilever

CantileverA platform deck extends horizontally past its base tower so it can reach over an aircraft wing.reach past the basewing

Straddle

StraddleTwo platform decks close around a fuselage, each with a cutout matching the curve of the skin.cutouts follow the contourfuselage

Ring

RingSegmented decks surround an engine nacelle, with sections that separate for storage.enginesegments separate for storage
Three ways to get a deck to the work. Which one you need is decided by what is in the way: an obstruction to reach over (cantilever), a section you need both sides of (straddle), or something you have to work all the way around (ring). Illustrative — dimensions and rated capacity are set per build and stated on the drawing.

How to know custom is worth it

Custom access costs more than stock, once. It earns that back in three places, and if none of the three apply to you, we will tell you to buy stock.

  • Setup time on a repeat job. Twenty minutes of rigging, on a job run daily, is roughly two working weeks a year per technician.
  • The workaround you are living with. Boards across two stands, a ladder on a deck, somebody on the top rail. Those are the incidents that have not happened yet.
  • Aircraft damage risk. One contact event on a composite panel costs more than the platform that would have prevented it.

The honest version

If your access problem is a common height in an open area, a stock stand will serve you better and sooner, and we would rather sell you that and keep the relationship. Custom is for the problems that stock has already failed to solve.

We will say which one you have before you spend anything.

What to send us

  1. Photos of the job as it is done todayIncluding the workaround. Especially the workaround.
  2. Aircraft or equipment, and the access pointType, and where on it — panel, station, zone, whatever language your shop uses.
  3. Working height and reachTo the work, not to the floor. An estimate is fine; we will confirm it.
  4. Facility constraintsDoor height, floor loading, available footprint, where it lives between jobs.
  5. FrequencyHow often the job runs, and how many people are on the deck at once.

That is enough for a configuration and a range. Drawings and site visits come after you know roughly what it costs, not before.

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