Patent ID: 8340854

Claim:
A method of managing maintenance of a fleet of aircraft by a business entity for a plurality of customers operating the fleet of aircraft, said method comprising: collecting data, using a monitoring subsystem, from a plurality of aircraft in each of the fleets fleet related to the operation of the aircraft; determining a range of acceptable values of performance parameters, using a monitoring subsystem, associated with the collected data and based on the collected data, the data collected from those aircraft having similar operating histories; analyzing the collected data, using an analyzer subsystem, having values outside the range of acceptable values using at least one of trend analysis, root cause analysis, and engineering analysis; and modifying at least one of a maintenance requirement for the fleet of aircraft and an interval between scheduled maintenance actions for the fleet of aircraft, using a maintenance task database, to facilitate reducing the number of performance parameters values that are outside the range of acceptable values during future operation of the aircraft.