The Tail Dock comes with a movable platform that can be positioned at any vertical location to access any surface of the vertical stabilizer of large or small aircraft
28 January 2021: VD Gulf has introduced a versatile, unique and mobile in-house solution called the ‘The Tail Dock’. It is designed and built by VD Gulf engineers and GSE professionals to transform the way VD Gulf conducts maintenance on aircraft vertical stabilizer.
The Tail Dock comes with a movable platform that can be positioned at any vertical location to access any surface of the vertical stabilizer of large or small aircraft, be it a Boeing 747 or Airbus A319
A special electrically operated mechanism positions the Tail Dock platform as required by the engineer/ technician working on the tail. Using a handy remote control, the aircraft engineer/ technician can adjust the height of the Tail Dock platform to any desired height, hence comfortably accessing any part of the tail.
The newly built universal Tail Dock reduces the time it takes to adjust platforms for different positions and also eliminates the need to keep two or three dedicated tail dock platforms for different aircraft types.
VD Gulf continuously work to improve the efficiency of its maintenance process by proactively introducing unique in-house solutions.
