Welcome to
AERO CARE, Inc.
80 Airport St.
Orange Municipal Airport (ORE)
Orange, MA 01364

Contact Brooks Margolien or call 978-544-9005 and ask for Brooks.

"We love airplanes, and airplanes love us!"

Our Services and Specialties:

 

Why Service Your Airplane at Aero Care, Inc. in Orange, Mass?

By Brooks Margolien, Pres.

Our convenient location 9 miles west of the GDM VOR has two 5,ooo ft., recently rebuilt runways (14-32, 01-19, also a closed but existing 04-22) which make for easy take-offs and landings, winds are almost always down the runway direct headwind. This makes for safe and efficient first flights especially after new cylinder installations, annuals, major repairs and engine changes when ground loitering or low airspeed climbouts can negatively affect cylinder/ ring seating.

Our President and chief technician has 23 years of world wide (Lugano Switzerland, Acores, Portugal) general aviation experience. An NTSB award winner, Beech factory trained, A&P / IA, 1500 hr Multi-engine rated, IFR, pilot. Add a dozen more years as an avid modeler, throw in a WWII army air corps father who flew the Hump with the Flying Tigers and was a veteran of the California aerospace industry and you'll get the picture; We love airplanes and airplanes love us!

Just being great mechanics doesn't alone make Aero Care, Inc. a great business. We are now in our 11th year of continuous operation. We are great communicators, and confront every situation with energy and enthusiasm. We answer the phone, utilize call forwarding, document and communicate through digital pictures, read and respond promptly to email, have broadband internet and a credit card machine in the hanger.

We have just this year relocated to Orange Mass. from Minute Man Air Field in Stow Massachusetts and are proud of our new location. Please stop by and compare our state of the art piston engine aircraft maintenance shop, which has a 13.5 ft H by 50 ft W door opening. You will be impressed with our lighting, tool selection and organizational system. Thanks to our 700 ft of raised storage shelving for airframe parts, we never leave a cowling on the hangar floor.

We have noticed that many shops run advertisements for their services installing new equipment and modifications. Sure we install many upgrades, but we think many airplanes should start with the basics. How about a complete corrosion assessment of your nooks and crannies, removing water soaked insulation, removing inoperative equipment, making your gauges, cabin doors and landing gear indicators function properly, eliminating wheel shimmy, calibrating your tachometer, and dynamically balancing your engine/propeller combination? Are your AD's up to date? Are your placards in order? Are your accessories over TBO?

Whether looking for a maintenance shop for all your needs, any time you would like to learn more about your plane, or before investing in new equipment or a new airplane, how about investing in a day at Aero Care, Inc.?

If you own a Beechcraft, Cessna, Piper, Mooney or Grumman newer than 1964, fly in and take a look. We are sure you'll find value at Aero Care.


Why Dynamically Balance Your Propeller at Aero Care?

A dynamic prop balance is performed by attaching vibration sensors to your crankcase, using an optical sensor to detect propellor RPM and position, and a computer to calculate the size of the imbalance and at what phase of rotation the prop/engine assembly is out of balance during a ground run up at cruise RPM.

You may read advertisements for engine overhauls where they balance your crankshaft down to a fraction of a gram. Did you know that (due to the physics of rotational inertia) the further away from the crankshaft centerline an imbalance occurs, the more effect it has on overall balance? How about your 6 ft. diameter propeller that weighs 70 lbs? Is that balanced to the gram after years of prop dressing and painting? Your crankshaft is only a small part of a dynamically balanced power plant.

Would you spin balance your cars wheels without the tires? Of course not, they are larger and heavier than the wheel itself, making a proper balance job even more important.

Don't be mistaken that balancing is more important for hi powered aircraft. We have found that fixed pitch props require just as much vibration analysis as constant speed types. And their lightweight spinner bulkheads are even more susceptible to cracking than more rugged constant speed arrangements.

Even if your plane feels OK in the cockpit, you may require a balance correction. Considerable time and expense went into designing your plane to keep vibration from reaching the cockpit. This does not mean your engine, cowling, baffles, exhaust system, accessories and gyros are not suffering from a vibration excess.

A simple run up with our computerized test equipment installed can take a survey of your vibration spectrum and let us know if balancing if necessary. Once the correct weights are installed you can tell the difference from the first start up. Think how nice that will be for your airplane, and for your long term cost savings.