Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association

The Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association is abbreviated as AFRA. It is the prominent international organization for evolving and stimulating the safe and viable administration of end-of-life airliner and constituents.

AFRA is established in 2005, it is a membership-based international collaboration to uplift industry enactment and raise commercial importance for end-of-service airliner. AFRA symbolizes corporations from across the sphere and all the way through the supply-chain – from producers to constituent recyclers. Through the communal familiarity of its associates, Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association’s Best Management Practice (BMP) Guide has considerably enhanced the organisation of end-of-life airliner in terms of ecological and viable performance. With an appraised 12,000 airliner retiring in following 2 decades, airliner recycling bids a broad array of opportunities for increasing aerospace trade. As the global aerospace communal continues to emphasize on ecological matters and landfill protocols increase, asset owners are beholding for effective, revenue-building and environmentally-sound means for aircraft clearance.  From parts supply, to disassembling, through supplies recycling, aerospace frontrunners are developing novel strategies for administration of end-of-life airliner.

AFRA was established in 2005, after 11 companies decided to join services to progress a business code of the conduct and the industry-developed recommended finest practice in the zones of airliner disassembling and materials reutilizing. The group aimed to drive and influence diligence towards elucidations for safe and ecologically most liable way of handling end-of-life airliner.

The original 11 acquaintances were Huron Valley Fritz, Milled Carbon, Air Salvage International, Bartin Group, The Boeing Company, Adherent Technologies, Chateauroux Air Centre, Europe Aviation, WINGNet and Rolls-Royce.

AFRA associates are universal frontrunners in the administration of aging airliner fleets. They comprise Aircraft Disassemblers, Parts Distributors, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Aircraft Insurers and Appraisers, Technology Developers and Materials Recyclers. Within its lines AFRA also sums technology firms, and recollects strong contacts with the educational community in kin to exploring and developing new reusing expertise. AFRA has developed from its establishing 11 associates to now comprehend 40 associates from 10 realms.