An aircraft maintenance plan and the lease compliance are not always hand in hand – this is for several reasons such as operator specific requirements customizing the maintenance plan for the aircraft and conditions, they operate in as such awareness of this, and an overview of the maintenance plan is essential during any lease or lease return.
An aircraft will always require maintenance to remain in an airworthy condition and to operate safely. There are 2 main types of maintenance that are required the planned and the unplanned!
One we can control and schedule, while the other we can do a lot to predict and monitor, but there will always be elements we cannot control and so must react to a situation – such as lightning strikes, bird strikes or component failure.