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Useful if you're building the internal case for records automation — the 'keep investing' figure is the argument, and the shift of AI ownership to the CEO explains why aviation budget conversations have moved up a floor. Worth noting it's a cross-industry survey with thin aviation representation, so treat the spend benchmarks as directional rather than a target for an MRO.

This is the backdrop for most of what we do. Delayed deliveries mean aircraft and engines stay in service longer, which means more shop visits, more records generated, and far more scrutiny at redelivery. Every extra year on wing is another year of unstructured documentation someone eventually has to reconcile.

The adoption-versus-value gap is the honest version of the AI story, and in aviation that gap almost always sits at the data layer. A model is only as good as the records it can read, and most airworthiness records are still scanned PDFs, handwritten task cards, and mismatched tally sheets. Fix the extraction problem and the ROI question gets a lot simpler.

Governance is where aviation buyers stall, and rightly so. If an agent touches an airworthiness record, someone has to be able to show data lineage, access control, and a sign-off trail to an auditor or a lessor's technical team. That's a design constraint in this industry, not a compliance afterthought.