United Technical Operations

The United (Airlines) Services Maintenance Center, is a 2.9 million square foot facility that is home to around 4,000 technicians, management and support personnel. United Services specializes in repair areas including: avionics, C-​checks, engines, landing gear and line maintenance. The United «Base» is located right next to SFO and was once part of the original Mills Field Municipal Airport and Army Air Corps facility. In fact, 2 of the United repair hangers are original buildings from that era.
Through one of my professional associations, I had the chance to tour this facility today. It was really cool and impressive to see various airplanes in the hangers, jet engines and landing gear in various stages of repair and testing, and experience the sheer size of the maintenance support operations necessary to keep a flying machine safely in flight. Our United hosts were thorough and knowledgeable, and I was humbled by the degree of HSSE knowledge required and applied to keep this place safely and compliantly humming.
Thank You!