Silver Air taps Bluetail for record management
Silver Air Private Jets has adopted Bluetail’s cloud-based aircraft record management platform.
The deployment has allowed Silver Air to replace a workflow historically dependent on physical logbook records with a fully searchable digital system, the company stated in a press release.
The transition also reduces the time required to onboard new aircraft into revenue-generating service. This is key for Silver Air as its primary revenue is generated through charter flights.
“Bluetail has become central to how we operate day to day,” said Ava Troiani, project manager at Silver Air. “The ability to search through an aircraft’s entire record history in minutes rather than digging through binders for weeks has changed the pace at which we work.”
Silver Air first encountered the limitations of its paper-based system while onboarding aircraft previously operated overseas, including in China and Singapore. Maintenance records from those operators followed different organisational conventions and, in some cases, were written in foreign languages. The process of manually sorting and cross-referencing those records for FAA conformity submissions is time consuming and resource-intensive.
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“When we first started pulling records on aircraft that had been maintained overseas, we quickly realised that paper was not going to scale,” Troiani added. “There had to be a better way, and Bluetail turned out to be it.”
Bluetail’s keyword search functionality, known as MACH Search, allows Silver Air’s team to locate specific maintenance documents, airworthiness directives and supplemental type certificates without manual page-by-page review. The platform also includes a compliance module that the company has used to conduct a fleet-wide audit of all active airworthiness directives, service bulletins and 337 supplemental type certificates.
John Ishaq, vice president of Technical Operations and director of Maintenance, Silver Air said: “Every extra day an aircraft sits in conformity is revenue we’re not seeing. Bluetail doesn’t just save time — it directly impacts our bottom line.”
Roberto Guerrieri, CEO of Bluetail said: “Silver Air is a great example of what happens when an operator commits to doing things right. They didn’t just adopt the technology — they built real operational discipline around it. That kind of proactive approach to compliance is exactly what the industry needs more of.”
