Mooney Parts Rumor

[Ryan ORL]

19 minutes ago, MikeOH said:

Interesting how that might work...do the 'workers' actually making the parts have to be Mooney employees, or can they be Laser employees physically in the Mooney factory using Mooney factory equipment/processes, and still be able to use the Mooney production certificate?

I got the impression it was the latter.

[N201MKTurbo]

I don’t think the FAA cares who is paying the employees.

[201Mooniac]

I thought in the end it was really just the Mooney quality process that mattered to the FAA, they can contract out the actual parts production as I understand it.

[N201MKTurbo]

35 minutes ago, 201Mooniac said:

I thought in the end it was really just the Mooney quality process that mattered to the FAA, they can contract out the actual parts production as I understand it.

That sounds right.

[Paul Thomas]

1 hour ago, Ryan ORL said:

The Mooney certificate.  There was some discussion of how to specifically structure the deal so as not to invalidate the certificate.  I didn't understand (and so don't remember) the specifics of how that works, but they were pretty clear that being able to do stuff under that certificate was the whole goal.

That makes sense; getting new certificates would be a pain. With this arrangement, it's unlikely VC is going to be able to step in as Mooney could replace LASAR with someone else at the end of the contract.