How to take apart a 767 | behind the scenes with AviaPrime in Belgrade
In this video we’re jetting over to Belgrade, Serbia to check out how things are done at an aircraft MRO called JAT Tehnika, which is part of the AviaPrime company. We’re just in time to witness a key step in the conversion of a 767 from a passenger aircraft into a freighter: the cutting of a large piece out of a 767 fuselage where its cargo door will eventually be fitted. This conversion is something only a handful of facilities are certified to do. An engineer walks us through the 767 and shows us just some of what has to go into converting this plane, which is also getting a heavy maintenance check at the same time.
MRO stands for maintenance, repair and operations - it's where you take your aircraft to get serviced, checked and repaired. And that means there’s plenty more to look at for those of you who are technically-minded or just plain curious what goes into this whole process. And it’s a lot
We also get a tour of the engine shop and engine test run facility here in Belgrade and check out the vintage Yugoslavian-era facility including some very classic aircraft parked out on the tarmac. And next week we’ll be headed to Ljubljana to see another company under the AviaPrime umbrella, Adria Tehnika, where they’re busy working on several aircraft including many CRJs and A320 family aircraft, so stay tuned for that!
People featured:
Bjarni Halfdanarson, Project Manager
Pavle Petrović, Head of Engine Test Cell and Quality Control
Ljubodrag Petrović, Junior Engineer
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SECTIONS:
00:00 Introduction
01:32 767 fuselage cutting
05:08 The entire aircraft stripped down
06:27 The door plug
08:22 Detailed walkaround with engineer
14:41 Engine shop
18:25 Aircraft museum (727 and 737-200!)
18:45 Engine test facility
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Jat has a great set up, clean and safety focused. Great to see a 25 YO Aircraft get a new life after such a busy life safely getting pax all over the world safely. After the conversion and C-check she will be like new.
@Flightradar24DotCom
8 ай бұрын
Yes!
@markdavis2475
8 ай бұрын
"Safety focused"??? So you didn't see the people standing around near a suspended load at 02:50?
Watching the preparation of a 25 year old plane for a new life is incredibly interesting. The engine test facility is also very interesting, in particular the IT equipment still in use. (19:40) It's a long time since I've seen CRTs in play and even longer since I saw a dot matrix printer in an office. However, this business is about maximising the use of existing technological resources, so why not?? It's very appropriate that they practice what the preach. Thanks to Flightradar24 for yet another outstanding video.
@Flightradar24DotCom
8 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@aurktman1106
8 ай бұрын
You can actually buy new dot matrix printers. If it ain't broke, no need to fix it.
@davidk8860
8 ай бұрын
Those CRTs are not normal computer "monitors", but are actually serial terminals, cabled through DB-25 or some other serial cabling, probably running somewhere between 9,600 and 56k baud rate. So, this facility probably has a mainframe or mini-computer running in a remote datacenter, and those terminals (which were never sold with flat-screen displays) may be an essential link to information. Yes, there are terminal emulators that run on a PC...so someone could replace the terminals with computers running a full-screen terminal app, but it just may be the case that the dedicated terminal is a more accurate terminal as well as more reliable for keeping a link going with the remote mainframe system.
Thank you for coming to Belgrade!
I have heard that when an aircraft reaches its second "D" check is when the airlines will retire it and it is usually a prime candidate for a freighter conversion. The D check is the most detailed and costly inspection of an aircraft since it must basically be disassembled down to the basic airframe. It’s logical to convert prime airframes to freighters since they have to be torn down anyways. Love to see more detailed videos of the conversion process.
Great video! I am a Serbian working as an AME-S in Canada and it’s great to see that they’re doing these big jobs in Serbia. It shows that these guys have knowledge, skill and technology for these types of projects which will also pave the way for the bigger ones in the future.
I'm sure those ladies wanted to be in the background of almost every shot. 🤣
WOW !!! what an amazing insight to a aircraft from passenger to freight, very much looking forward to the next episode.
@Flightradar24DotCom
8 ай бұрын
Many thanks!
Wow, what a great detailed report as always sir, and stepping back in time to see those great old Boeing aircraft, the JAT 727 I flew that exact one from Manchester to Split when I was a wee child.
@Flightradar24DotCom
8 ай бұрын
That's so cool! Glad you enjoyed it.
Doesn’t MRO stand for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul?
@YHDiamond
8 ай бұрын
You beat me to it
@shapke
8 ай бұрын
Yes
@bobbrewer5182
8 ай бұрын
Yes it does.
@croweater87
8 ай бұрын
Yes
@michaelmcconnell3777
8 ай бұрын
Yes it does
My first job with Qantas in 1995 was 767 heavy maintenance and crawling inside to the top of the vertical fin for corrosion control. a truly great aircraft to work on. 🙂🇦🇺
@Flightradar24DotCom
7 ай бұрын
Cool!
Amazing content! love the format and length!!!
More content like this please :)
I know a guy who's a captain on a 767 Fedex cargo. Avionics are from the 787, which I don't really like. I love the original 767 cockpit. Steam gauges and crt screens. Perfect.
Very beautiful video. ✈️ Thank you. ☘️
Nice to see them breathing new life into these old birds
Very interesting walk...Dank an Gabriel
I have lots of memories with that aircraft.
Cool video! I fly these jets. Amazing to see them all tore up before I get to fly them.
@Flightradar24DotCom
8 ай бұрын
Nice! Thanks for watching.
This video was so good, love from 🏴
Looks like that is VQ-BTQ... MSN 28207 / 695 Started life with TWA in 1998.
Super video , great to see mother and father in the family run business כל כך תוסס.
Thank you all. Very interesting.
I'm not sure I understood much of this. And it is fascinating! I welcome more content like this. Look forward to next week. Thanks again!
I love the state-of-the-art PC's 😅 Though im sure they still do exactly what they were designed to do.
Superb content! Thanks for sharing this!
very very intersrting one Gabriel.Thanks for the hard work.
2:57 I like how those ladies are just walking around no PPE (hard hats) and people just Willy Nillie walking around under that chunk of fuselage 😂🤣 OHSA what
That was fascinating!
Clever and talented people
Great Info, We like it...
great show thankyou jerry would love this bigjetv
Excellent video, Very informative
Awesome how they have the old equipment still racked in the engine test facility.
VERY interesting - thanks!
@Flightradar24DotCom
8 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
MRO means maintenance, repair and overhaul
@Flightradar24DotCom
8 ай бұрын
It can be Overhaul or Organization, it depends.
I'd love to know how they determine what makes a good candidate for conversion from pax to cargo ? Brilliant behind-the-scenes video! Thanks @GabrielLeigh!
@OOpSjm
8 ай бұрын
How much the customer wants to spend.
Wow
this is even more challenging because they rebuilt, modifying it
Pavle is a total babe!
@Flightradar24 is the 767 going to Challenge Airlines malta? because we already have another of their former 767Fs which is 9H-CAD nowadays. It used to fly for the same airline Ikar/Pegas Airlines
I love the 767, but it seems like it would be cheaper to just buy a new -F spec plane? By the time they've replaced everything bar the hull, and reengineered the hull itself? 😮
А я работал/летал на этом самолете, бортпроводником)
O in MRO is overhauled?
Wonder who the 767 was originally delivered to way back
@Flightradar24DotCom
8 ай бұрын
Good question! It was actually delivered to TWA back in 1998. Later flew for AA and after that, Shanghai Airlines.
I should send them my Camry and have them convert it into an Interstate highway motorcoach...😉RogerC 10/20/23
I can't get to the feature;. There are pop ads that go on and on
A 26 year old aircraft, hoping to get another 20 years out of it? What's thae actual conversion cost?
Boeing is still building new 767-300F's; wonder how much this conversion costs VS a brand new one...
❤🇱🇨!!!
I don't understand why it can be used as a freighter when it can not be used for passager transport anymore.
not one comment in Serbian ?
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Damn! Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a brand new aircraft instead od converting an older aircraft?
@Flightradar24DotCom
8 ай бұрын
No, converting the aircraft and then acquiring via the secondary market is cheaper.
@kennethbaker2008
8 ай бұрын
I would think they purchase those aircraft pretty cheap when the airlines are done with them.
Very sad to see B727 YU-AKF and B737-200 YU-ANP in such a bad shape 😢
1970's Russian technology, being used to bodge an ex Russian Pegas 767. LOL.
I thought there was a compony in germany doing these convertions?
Wow, safely out the window in that company. I would not trust them to change oil in my car crazy the way they work how are they certified
you need to hire a camera man! getting queasy watching this otherwise fascinating video
I’m a big fan of seeing technical detail but the first 4 mins of this video are of a piece of fuselage being lifted off and stood on the floor. That’s about 30s of video required max. Bored now and switching off.
Health and safety of workplace highly questionable. No PPE in sight. Hoping they are not applying the same safety measures to the new converted airplane
Oh yeah…that looks professional 🙄
Guys, do yourselves and us a favour and cut out the background music. It adds nothing and subtracts from the story. Just to annoying.
Workplace Health and Safety is questionable. It’s all about cost.
A lot of talking and not real work shown...
Maintenance repair overhaul