News | AMES CAMO

05/02/2026

EASA Part-IS: burden or opportunity?

When EASA published the new Part-IS requirement, we saw it as another burden to our daily operations. I have to say that being an EASA approved CAMO is not the easiest path in this private aviation world but on the other hand having high expectations from your national authority is driving you to higher safety standards. We have been working for more than a year on this Part-IS compliance and beyond being a new mandatory requirement, it is basically a path to make your information system safer. We have conducted several internal and external security audits, identified potential weaknesses and consolidated our IT network and structure integrity. Considering not only the airworthiness side of IT security, our VVIP or head of state customers must rely on us to protect their airplane data. All this hard work to improve our procedures and IT system managed us to contract the specialized insurance company Stoïk to cover our Cybersecurity risk after getting a 100% score mark. This is an important milestone and a plus for our customers to be confident their CAMO partner is protected and insured against that risk. Like in aviation the zero risk does not exist but our duty against our customer is to minimize that IT security risk as much as possible, this is now achieved and I can say what a great opportunity!

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07/11/2025

Doing What’s Right – Even When It’s Not Required

At AMES, most of our work focuses on CAMO support for VIP airliners — Boeing and Airbus aircraft on which we apply our EASA CAMO standards and procedures. Recently, we took on something new: the CAMO management of a Gulfstream G200 registered in the United States, where such oversight isn’t mandatory. Why would a private jet owner choose CAMO support even when it isn’t required? Because the best operators know that compliance alone doesn’t guarantee quality. CAMO isn’t just about checking boxes; it’s about maintaining standards, preserving value, and ensuring peace of mind every time you fly. We’re seeing a clear shift among operators. More owners are choosing oversight not because they must, but because it’s the right thing to do. Even in markets where CAMO is optional, operators are embracing expert support to gain the same reliability, traceability, and confidence enjoyed by regulated operators. At AMES, we believe managing aircraft to the highest standards shouldn’t depend on what’s written in the rulebook — it should be about doing what’s right for the aircraft, and for those who fly them. Safety is for everyone.

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02/09/2025

MEET US AT THE UPCOMING BOEING BBJ CONFERENCE IN TORONTO!

Once again we are looking forward attending the BBJ Owner and Operator Conference which is taking place this year in Toronto, starting on September 15th. We have not missed any since 2006! Based on last year positive feedbacks of the "BBJ Operator Experience Best Practice" we presented during one of the workshop, we will again actively participate in a new session, discussing key technical and operational topics related to our BBJ fleet, including models like the B737NG, B737MAX, and B787. We have prepared a list of subjects relevant to our fleet of BBjs in service, with technical insights and we are looking at sharing with other operators. As an approved BBJ service supplier, we’re excited to have a booth during the supplier breakout sessions on Wednesday evening. If you're planning to attend, we would love to meet you! Stop by our booth to explore how our tailored services can support your BBJ operations. Let's connect and collaborate! Looking forward to seeing you there!

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14/08/2025

EXPANDING OUR GULFSTREAM FLEET

Even though US registered airplanes do not require a CAMO, some VIP operators see the benefits of having their asset being looked after per best industry standards. We are proud to have signed for one Gufstream G550 and one G650 privately operated bizjets, starting a succesful relationship with our new customer. Indeed this is after performing a records review and reorganization on another plane operated by the same company that they realized how important it is to maintain aircraft records. Beyond airworthiness compliance and safety concerns, which remain first priorities and reasons to contract a CAMO, having properly organized records is maintaining the asset value and allows an easy sale of the plane at any point of time.

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11/08/2025

AIRBUS 320 NEO JOINING THE FLEET

During our nearly 20 years of existence we have built a strong reputation on the Boeing BBJ family which represents nowadays almost two thirds of our fleet. From this large experience on airliner type of planes converted to VIP planes, so called Bizliners, we can propose our CAMO services to Airbus operators and this is why we are glad to have signed a CAMO contract for a new A320 NEO which has just been outfitted with its VIP interior. This plane will soon enter into service and is fully integrated into our ADEL tracking system. This is our second Airbus A320 under contract and we are looking for further opportunities since we have all agreements in place with Airbus, including our AirbusWorld access. Let us know if you are looking for an independent CAMO provider, we are there!

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29/04/2025

BOEING BBJ3 BACK UNDER MANAGEMENT

We recently signed a new CAMO contract for a Boeing BBJ3 (B737-900ER) for which we previously were the CAMO, from its cabin outfitting project back in 2012 up to 2019. We are glad to have this VVIP BBJ back on our books after being sold to one of our client. We are actively working on reviewing all past maintenance actions to bring it back to our standards. This is our 13th B737NG BBJ currently under contract which represents almost 10% of the BBJ fleet in service, we are proud of this achievement!

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25/03/2025

CAMO contract for another Boeing BBJ

We are proud to announce the signature of a new CAMO contract for a USA based Boeing BBJ! This is elevating our number of B737NG BBJ fleet under continuing airworthiness management to 12, quite a high number considering there are no more 737NG BBJs being delivered by Boeing. "I see this contract as a great achievement because this customer has decided to contract us not because of a regulatory requirement but as a willingness to have our company AMES maintain his asset to the best standards" said our CEO Mickael Villermet with the following comment: "There are many BBJs on the market who passed 20 years into service and with time the amount of records is simply increasing, requiring a proper system to organize them and keep track of every modification, damage, repair, part change or task accomplishment. This is what our ADEL tracking system does, and it does it well!"

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21/01/2025

AIRCRAFT RECORDS REVIEWS

Our core activity is the continuing Airworthiness Management (CAMO) but this is not our sole field of competence. Indeed our experience gained managing all our aircraft under contract is allowing us to propose our services during pre-purchase inspections where the buyer is looking to make sure the aircraft records are in full compliance with existing and potential future requirements. We are currently working in parallel on a few records reviews for different customers and on various aircraft types. One of them is turning into a records recovery project where we have to retrieve and reorganize all the records, prior to a potential sale. Another one is a consultancy for a potential buyer with limited scope of review, which might turn into a deeper records review once they decide to engage with the seller. After nearly 20 years of operation, we have been involved in several records review projects, most of the time as part of airplane transactions, and this is always a challenging process. We try to bring our expertise for our customers in order to make sure their risk exposure is minimum and find any potential issue before the transaction is done. Reason why this is important to engage experienced staff, feel free to contact us if you have a need for a records review and we will discuss your project!

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06/06/2024

BOEING WORKING MEETINGS AT AMES

Our teams have been working for quite some time with Boeing and BBJ on various technical subjects and this time Boeing proposed to come to our facilities to have a working session. We hosted total 7 Boeing representatives from maintenance engineering and customer support. The main working session has been spent on improving the B737 BBJ active storage / flight ready condition procedures to better match BBJ specific requirements. We made great progress and Boeing engineering will finalize the review internally with a target to get the maintenance manual be updated in the coming months. In addition since we are BBJ MAB co-chairman we worked on the BBJ MPD proposed coming changes in order to bring our practical experience. Based on our reliability data and studies, we provided Boeing with our feedback on fleet issues and specific low utilization defects we are facing. Indeed with our fleet of 12 BBjs for nearly 20 years we have now accumulated a lot of data which allowed us to either adjust task intervals or add reliability tasks on some of our BBjs based on their operating environment. We shared our internal data with the aim for Boeing to provide some recommendations to the other BBJ operators on an optional basis. Those two working days have been really productive and allowed both teams to understand each other better for improved working relations. We did not forget there is more than work in life and we shared with our Boeing friends the good sides of France!

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29/05/2024

EASA PART-M Subpart I capacity extension

Our team is counting a new member with Mr Brahim Naji who is bringing us many decades of experience in the fields of Aircraft Review Certificate (ARC) survey and renewal. This is expanding our capacity to offer ARC renewal services for Boeing B737NG, B747-400, B787, Airbus A320 and A330. Brahim is currently working on an A330 ARC recommendation after major check and cargo conversion. If you have any request for such services, feel free to contact us and we will see how we can best assist you.

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