AI Hot Topic at NBAA-BACE

As I'm writing this, it's the end of day two at NBAA-BACE 2025 in Las Vegas. The D.O.M. magazine team has had a busy two days with lots of conversations at our booth, plenty of press conferences and seminars, and walking the show floor looking for new products and services for aircraft maintenance professionals. 

A popular topic this year has been artificial intelligence (AI) in aviation — including AI in aircraft maintenance. 

Yesterday, Veryon announced an expansion of its Veryon Defect Analysis product to support charter and fractional fleets. You can read the announcement HERE.

Veryon Defect Analysis has been used for years by airlines. In a nutshell, as customers repair defects, the corrective action is uploaded (after removing proprietary data and de-identifying other information). From there, AI builds its knowledge base and helps all customers learn from the collective fleet data. It is then able to help maintenance teams identify repair solutions based on that continuously growing knowledge base.

CORRIDOR (a CAMP Systems company) participated in a session yesterday announcing that it is working with West Star Aviation to develop AI-based solutions for West Star's maintenance department.  

These are interesting times in aviation. As aircraft maintenance professionals, we won't be replaced by AI or robots anytime soon. However, new resources, including AI solutions, will enable to do our jobs more efficiently and efficiently.

Hopefully these new AI solutions won't erode our abilities to the point where we are so reliant on IA we lose our systems knowledge and troubleshooting skills. I guess only time will tell.

Thanks for reading, and we appreciate your feedback!

Joe Escobar