KDED
DeLand, FL
DeLand Municipal Airport, our fleet-support base. Most mobile dispatch for the central and east side of the state starts here.
AOG · LIVE LINE · 24 / 7
When your airplane won't fly and you need a mechanic now, one call gets a mobile unit rolling. Day, night, weekend, holiday. We cover Florida and Georgia out of three hangars, and a real person picks up the phone.
DISPATCH 24 / 7 COVERAGE FL & GA BASES KDED · KVNC · KSFB SIGNED BY A&P / IA
Dispatch is live
AOG means aircraft on ground, and one call gets us moving. Pick up the phone whether you're grounded at your home field or stuck somewhere far from it. Day, night, weekend, or holiday, the person who answers is a mechanic who can start moving parts and people.
Aircraft on ground
AOG is what the industry calls it when an aircraft can't fly and has to be fixed before it moves again. It's short for aircraft on ground, and it's the call where waiting costs you the most: a canceled trip, a hangar bill in a strange town, a flight school airplane off the line and not earning. Waiting is the expensive part, so our AOG service is built to pick up fast and give you a straight answer on the phone.
Call the AOG line when the airplane won't start, won't make full power, has a fresh leak, a flat, a dead battery, a warning that wasn't there yesterday, or any squawk that makes flying it a bad idea. You don't need a diagnosis first. Tell us the tail number, the field, and what the airplane is doing, and we take it from there. If it turns out to be a five minute fix, good. If it's bigger, you'll hear that on the phone too.
Our AOG service in Florida runs the same way whether the airplane is a piston single that lost its alternator or a light twin with a fuel squawk. The team that answers is the same team that signs annuals in the shop, so the person on the phone already knows what questions to ask.
From the call to the ramp
A real person answers, you approve the callout fee before anyone rolls, and no surprise invoice shows up afterward. Four steps from the phone call to a mechanic at your airplane.
Call (941) 661-7865 any hour and a real person answers. Give us the tail number, the field, and what the airplane is doing.
Before anyone rolls, you hear the callout fee and you approve it. Nothing dispatches until you say go, so there's never a surprise number waiting for you afterward.
Dispatch comes from whichever of our three hangars is closest to you, KDED, KVNC, or KSFB. The van is stocked for piston work and rolls with the tools and common parts most ramp squawks need.
The mechanic troubleshoots at your airplane, fixes what can be fixed on site, and signs the logbook when the work makes the aircraft airworthy again. If it needs the shop, we tell you the plan before we leave.
Where we roll
Our mobile units dispatch from three hangars and cover the Southeast, which for us means Florida and Georgia. If you're grounded in Venice, Sarasota, DeLand, Sanford, Fort Myers, or a field between them, you're inside our AOG service area. If you're stuck a little farther out, call anyway and we'll tell you what we can do.
KDED
DeLand Municipal Airport, our fleet-support base. Most mobile dispatch for the central and east side of the state starts here.
KVNC
Venice Municipal Airport, our on-field Skyport FBO partner on the Gulf side. Mobile units cover Venice, Sarasota, and Fort Myers from here.
KSFB
Orlando Sanford International. Ramp calls and pre-buy work run out of this base, with mobile dispatch across the Orlando area.
For the full picture of our bases and service area, see our hangars and coverage across the Southeast, or read how the whole shop works on the Alpha Company Aviation home page.
What we can do on site
A mobile unit is not a full hangar. Plenty of squawks that ground an airplane are field-repairable, and those we handle right there at your airplane. Some faults need a lift, a teardown, and time to verify. For those, the right move is to get you legal to ferry or safely moved rather than sign off work we cannot verify on a ramp.
On the ramp, most of the time
Back at the shop, when it needs it
Every repair, on the ramp or in the shop, stays inside the same rules the rest of our work does. That means keeping your aircraft airworthy and current on any applicable FAA airworthiness directives, and documenting what we did so the logbook still makes sense years from now. For the full range of what the shop signs off, see all of our aircraft maintenance services.
Same shop, same signature
The person who picks up the AOG line works in the same shop that signs your annual. There's no call center between you and the mechanic, and no handoff to a stranger who has never seen your kind of airplane. The work is signed by an FAA A&P with Inspection Authorization, on the ramp or in the hangar, to manufacturer specifications.
Frequently asked
If yours isn't here, call (941) 661-7865 and ask.
We quote a callout fee on the phone before we dispatch, so you approve the number before anyone rolls. Parts and labor are quoted the same honest way once we see what the aircraft needs. No surprise invoice after the fact.
Call (941) 661-7865 any hour and a real person answers. We dispatch a mobile unit from the nearest of our three hangars at KDED, KVNC, or KSFB, often the same day. On the call we give you an honest response window and then we hit it.
Our AOG service covers Florida and Georgia, the Southeast. Mobile units run out of our hangars at DeLand (KDED), Venice (KVNC), and Sanford (KSFB) and travel to your field, whether you're grounded at home or stuck far from it. See our hangars and coverage for the full map.
Common squawks that keep a piston aircraft on the ground: dead battery, starter, alternator and electrical faults, magneto trouble, oil leaks, brake bleeds, tire changes, ignition timing, vacuum pump swaps, simple fuel system work, and basic instrument changes. If a fault needs a hangar and a real teardown, we get you ferry-permittable and home rather than sign off something we can't verify on a ramp.
AOG · 24 / 7 · FL & GA
One call starts the AOG service. For work that can wait, you can also send us a non-urgent work request and we'll get back to you.