FAA aircraft parts certification case

General reference to the FAA repair-station authorization regime and counterfeit-parts problem; turbine blade notching practice cited.

It's not limited to piston engines. This whole repair business applies to jet engines in a much bigger way. On jet engines we're talking about General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, and Rolls-Royce engines that go in 747s and 737s. It's about a 15 or 20 billion dollar worldwide repair industry to rebuild the engine parts. You could have a compressor case that costs fifty thousand dollars brand-new, and you can repair one for ten thousand. It can be a very lucrative business to repair things. But again, you have to be an FAA repair station. Anybody who touches this thing and is not an FAA repair station can go to jail.