AOG Technics Limited is a British company and as such finding information on it is a 2 minutes Google job: <a href="https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09444470" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...</a><p>So a lot of what's reported in the following article really is within easy reach of anyone wanting to do business with them: <a href="https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/bogus-supplier-of-jet-engine-parts-may-have-faked-employees-too-1.1968708" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/bogus-supplier-of-jet-engine-par...</a>
Related from a few weeks ago:<p><i>Supplier caught distributing fake parts for world’s top-selling jet engine</i><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37366767">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37366767</a>
This isn’t a very very bad. This stuff is highly controlled for a reason.<p>Engines have a variety of LLPs (Life Limited Parts), and airlines are required to count cycles, hours, etc and replace with OEM certified replacements— all part of the reasons jets don’t fall out of the sky
What keeps the highly regulated world of aircraft from adopting a semi-public registry* of all relevant airplanes and all their parts + part history?<p>There apparently is only a ridiculously small number of 40.000** different airplanes in the world! This database would fit on a single hard drive.<p>* did someone say blockchain? (Planes and all their components could be NFT mintable by component producers) (I am a blockchain hater but here it really fits!)<p>** <a href="https://www.travelweek.ca/news/exactly-many-planes-world-today/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.travelweek.ca/news/exactly-many-planes-world-tod...</a>