AOG Spares

AOG

Hi
here at FOKKER we still use the term AOG for spares for the F100/70/50/60
Also for spares for the AIRBUS 300.
Regards Peter.

Yup Robdd1, welcome to the forums 🙂

They had a stores bod at Odious Tech charged, they needed a genny AOG out in NI yesterday and packing one he dropped it…… can happen to anyone, but you know the military witch hunt mentality.. so instead he packed it and they AOG’d it out to NI, needless to say it was f++++d………. So he got charged.

I often thought such was the Military mentality, that if the attitude I use today of “It can happen to anyone, been there, seen it and done it ” existed in the RAF then the incident would not of occured, and I wondered what had been fitted in the past throughout the RAF because of it fear of retribution for a genuine accident…

I had a Student here damaged an aircraft in a taxying accident and was scared to tell me for fearing I would erupt….. He was suprised at my friendly attitude and that I thanked him for being honest and told him the tale of the Robin and the hay bale……. he went away a better person with a better understandng of the consequences of trying to hide it.

TonyT,

I remember the trips well, working as the stacker on 72Sqn used to call people out from all over but remember Odiham and Benson people coming over more often than not.

AOG stickers were used alongside state codes as well…… Bringing back the days.

Waghorn41, Hi,
Oh dear, Oh dear.
Having started my Met Office/military career at Wittering (and I lived in Peterborough!) I know what you mean! It would, undoubtedly, have been quicker/more effective to send a wagon to the source. But you are in danger of invoking one of the most dangerous things of all – Common Sense!! You must rid yourself of this urge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Resmoroh

Had an AOG at Wittering once – for a Hunter! The fuel tanks were knackered so an AOG order was placed and we had a team waiting to fit them, took bloody ages to arrive! Apparently they were sent to Kings Cross (don’t know where from) then put on a train to Peterborough where the duty MT driver had to collect them and get them to us in the hangar…
We reckoned it would have been quicker to send a truck from Wittering to pick them up from wherever they were.

Tony,
Sounds like coming up the Rhone Valley in a Beverley in the teeth of a howling Mistral and watching goods trains overtake you??!!
Rgds
Resmoroh

Spent many a day doing Duty Courier to NI, would be driven to Stores pick up bit, driven to the Airport, put on Belfast Shuttle. Driven round to Aldergrove to dropped off the bit…… Customs at Heathrow were fun. What’s in the box sir? pass…. opens the box. ahh, it’s an aerial., lone washer…… starter genny etc.
Had Ian Paisley come up to me in departures spuoting his verbage. told him to feck orf :p
Getting back though was the hard bit……..it was a case of cheapest and often slowest route. came back in a bloody Beaver once… Watching cars pulling away from you as you followed roads told me it was going to be a long un.

OG, Hi
Definitely ‘AOG’ means ‘Aircraft On Ground’. In the V-Force days an AOG spare part often meant a car (or motorcyclist) being sent to the manufacturers to fetch whatever.
It was still in use on Op CORPORATE. While on Ascension we ‘blew’ a small (but vital) circuit-board in the satellite receiver. We signalled UK for a replacement. SRAFO ASI said “Put ‘treat as AOG’ in the signal”. We did. The spare arrived next day! We later learned that some ‘Erbert at the manufacturers had been hauled out of bed in the middle of the night to get The Bit to Lyneham in time to catch the next Herc to ASI!!
It means “Do Not ‘Ang About”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HTH
Resmoroh

Resmoroh – Thanks for the confirmation. I ask the question because Airwork had a contract for AOG Spares which was operated from Booker. The contract, certainly at Booker, ceased in 1963.
OG

Still used today.

If a commercial airliner is on the ramp and it requires a part immediately, the part is requested as AOG, in otherwords we need this part NOW! Most spares companies (LAS as an example) will have a special delivery service for AOG parts where the part will be dispatched before payment for the part is made by the maintenance company. In most cases, parts are with the engineer within a few hours rather than the usual week or so for regular dispatch.

also, see here:
http://www.duncanaviation.aero/aog/parts.php?gclid=CPXvi4iJ6qgCFcJP4Qod7C8yCQ

OG, Hi
Definitely ‘AOG’ means ‘Aircraft On Ground’. In the V-Force days an AOG spare part often meant a car (or motorcyclist) being sent to the manufacturers to fetch whatever.
It was still in use on Op CORPORATE. While on Ascension we ‘blew’ a small (but vital) circuit-board in the satellite receiver. We signalled UK for a replacement. SRAFO ASI said “Put ‘treat as AOG’ in the signal”. We did. The spare arrived next day! We later learned that some ‘Erbert at the manufacturers had been hauled out of bed in the middle of the night to get The Bit to Lyneham in time to catch the next Herc to ASI!!
It means “Do Not ‘Ang About”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HTH
Resmoroh

Presumably – ‘Aircraft On Ground’

High priority spares to allow aircraft to be repaired and resume flight duties.

Bruce

That was quick Bruce, thank you. It is not a term I have seen before.

Presumably – ‘Aircraft On Ground’

High priority spares to allow aircraft to be repaired and resume flight duties.

Bruce