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      • Aircraft undercarriage repair and overhaul
      • Acrylic window refurbishment
      • Aircraft wheel and brake maintenance and repair
      • Airframe component repair and overhaul
      • Aircraft engine component repair and overhaul
    • Precision engineering
      • Precision machining for the aircraft industry
      • Non destructive testing of aircraft components
      • Welding and surface processes
    • Ground Support
      • Bush and liner removal
      • Seal insertion tool for aircraft wheel hubs
      • Aircraft wheel portable half-hub cup handling machine
      • Hand held drive block puller
      • Wheel hub compressor
      • Aircraft brake disc flattening
      • BushBaby – small bush and liner removal
      • Aircraft tyre deflation tool
      • Aircraft windshield bolt hole inspection equipment
    • Vintage Aircraft
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    • Recent articles
      • Removing difficult back to back bushes from Aircraft assemblies March 4, 2020
      • RUDDER INPUT MECHANISM for the BAe 146 (Avro RJ) December 18, 2017
      • Hanley Smith Ltd has approval to perform maintenance on Canadian aeronautical products December 8, 2016
      • Bush removal from Boeing 737 undercarriage components October 27, 2016
      • Wheel half hub cup handling July 5, 2016
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    Removing difficult back to back bushes from Aircraft assemblies

    The Hanley Smith Urge Tooling has been developed to remove bushes mounted back to back with negligible gap between them as found on the A340. The tooling is based on the BushOut system using a version of the patented elements…

    Posted on March 4, 2020 by Richard in Uncategorized Continue Reading
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    RUDDER INPUT MECHANISM for the BAe 146 (Avro RJ)

    The Hanley Smith skilled labour force is proud to have overhauled the Rudder Input Mechanism for the BAe 146. The BAe 146 is a short-haul airliner and a regional airliner that was manufactured in the United Kingdom by British Aerospace, later…

    Posted on December 18, 2017 by Richard in Uncategorized Continue Reading

    Hanley Smith Ltd has approval to perform maintenance on Canadian aeronautical products

      Civil Aviation Authority Shared Services Centre Our Ref UK. 145.00294 / TCCA 816-15  Approval of MOE TCCA Supplement Following a review of the elements contained in the referenced MOE TCCA Supplement against the requirements of the current Agreement on…

    Posted on December 8, 2016 by Richard in Uncategorized Continue Reading
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    Bush removal from Boeing 737 undercarriage components

    Hanley Smith has developed a tool kit specifically to remove bushes from a Boeing 737 undercarriage set. By integrating the flexible ‘BushOut’ system with the collet system; bushes from 3.5″ down to 0.25″ inside diameter and with varying lengths are…

    Posted on October 27, 2016 by Richard in Ground support equipment Continue Reading
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    Wheel half hub cup handling

    The Wheel Half Hub Cup Handling tool is a complete system designed to remove and assemble wheel hub cups avoiding damage to the wheels. Using the Hanley Smith Half Hub Cup tool cups can be removed cold. For reassembly the…

    Posted on July 5, 2016 by Richard in Ground support equipment Continue Reading
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    Making key parts for the Pegasus engine

    Hanley Smith Ltd is supporting the Navy by manufacturing and supplying a set of cylinders for use refurbishing a vintage Swordfish. The Bristol Pegasus is a British nine-cylinder; single-row, air-cooled radial aero engine originally built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company….

    Posted on May 30, 2016 by Richard in Aircraft engine refurbishment, Vintage Aircraft Continue Reading

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    Our blog contains news and articles about our precision engineering services for the aviation industry.

    Posted on May 2, 2016 by Richard in Uncategorized Continue Reading
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      We are able to offer a varied range of services to the Aerospace Industry supported by the following approvals.

      EASA PART 145. Approval No. UK.145.00294
      FAR 145 Approval No.H9 SY001N.
      ISO9001-2015 Registration No. FM 37016.
      TCCA CAR 573. Approval No. 816-15.

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      • Removing difficult back to back bushes from Aircraft assemblies March 4, 2020
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      • Hanley Smith Ltd has approval to perform maintenance on Canadian aeronautical products December 8, 2016
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