Bluetail, a general aviation SaaS company based in Scottsdale, Arizona, has created the first US and Canadian aircraft records scanning network with over 120 locations. The digitally-focused industry solution is a first as it offers a secure path from paper to digital to the Bluetail app, within a few clicks.

Bluetail's nationwide aircraft records scanning centre network has locations in major cities across the US and Canada that adhere to both Advisory Circular AC 120-78A and Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) 43.12. Centres can be found in standalone locations and near private jet airports in cities like Teterboro, White Plains, Van Nuys, Las Vegas, West Palm Beach, Dallas/Fort Worth, Scottsdale, Seattle and San Jose. Bluetail also has an interactive map of all the centres on its website.

“After talking to aircraft owners and operators, MROs, maintenance tracking software companies and aircraft brokers, we were convinced that the aircraft record scanning centres needed to be close to the aircraft home bases,” says Stuart Illian, co-founder. All Bluetail centres will follow the same physical security and best practice scanning protocol, and are SOC 2 and HIPAA compliant. Bluetail customers can now choose onboarding packages and additional services that best fit their needs, aircraft type and budget.

“This upgrade to Bluetail gives jet owners an end-to-end solution and peace of mind knowing all valuable records are digital, as well as backed up to the cloud,” adds Roberto Guerrieri, another co-founder of Bluetail.

The new locations are immediately available for customer use, and services include: a best practices digital conversion process; secure courier pickup and return; full pre and post records scan verification; high resolution paper-to-pdf and OCR conversion; import, mapping and indexing into Bluetail.