Leather and Vinyl Aircraft Upholstery Repair & Restoration Gallery

Color Glo offers services that target leather, vinyl, and plastic surfaces used for the interior components of aircraft.

These components include aircraft seating, side panels and reveals, headliners, seat bases, window reveals, table tops, and drink rails.

The industry uses many different types of plastics, vinyls, and leathers not only to accomplish both practical and maintainable surfaces but also to bring elegance to these interiors.

• Cleaning and conditioning – This includes basic cleaning of built-up soiling, newsprint ink or ink stains, removing simple scuffs, and applying a final coat of leather conditioner.

• Repairing worn areas – Many high wear areas such as seat arm rests and upper back cushions have the coating worn thin or all the way through, exposing the actual leather to premature wear and leaving it unprotected from the elements. Repairing and re-dying surfaces with multiple coats of finish will bring these areas back to a like new condition.

• Repairing & Re-dying of damaged areas – Faded colours and surfaces damaged from scuffs, scratches, and cracking can often be repaired to a like new condition. This includes leather, vinyl, and hard plastics. These areas are then re-dyed back to an original color.

Quality Control

Many companies have tested their products to prove that they will not alter existing burn certificates but what they haven’t done is create an FAA repair station that controls who uses these products, how they use them, and how they will qualify their work. This is called a quality control system. Using an FAA certificated system will assure that trained people are using these products, these products are traced from point of origin to point of use, and a quality control system is used to issue FAA approved paperwork to the aircraft owner returning the aircraft to service after the maintenance we provide is completed. Color Glo in correlation with AIM, use either FAA form #8130-3 or logbook entry forms at the customer requests. Rest assured that existing burn certifications will not be voided when AIM maintains your interiors.

Longevity

A common question is “How long will it last?” It is simple to make something look good going out the door but the real value to the end user is often found months later after these surfaces have been used and cleaned by the customer. We cannot control how you clean or maintain these surfaces after they leave our hands but we feel confident that it will wear well and often times as well as the original finish. We have not experienced cracking, peeling, tackiness, product coming off onto clothing, and the many other problems that many products cause. We take great pride in the fact our products stand the test of time again and again. We have a long list of customers who continually ask us to perform our maintenance on every annual inspection of their aircraft. They have found that routine maintenance can keep the appearance and condition of these interiors in a like new condition even though they may have thousands of hours of actual use.