Patrick Schaan

At Boeing I am responsible for taking the Aircraft from TPC, cleaning this protective coating off, prepping the aluminum for primer, applying primer and top coat. Monitoring the A/C during curing and then applying the customer livery. That also includes all maintenance and warning stencils. When finished I am responsible for driving the customer around and working any discrepancies they find. We use base coat/ clear coat and also mono coat, or single stage type 8 and 9 paint. I work the 737.

At Dassault I was responsible for working various models of Dassault Falcon. This was a repair station so all the work was strip and repaint jobs. I enjoyed the work a lot. Along with the repaints I also did MRO and SRC work. That included blends over rework areas, parts painting, fixing paint areas after mechanics took a panel off and buffing/polishing areas of concern.

CAPS was my entry into aviation. It was an overflow company for Boeing and we painted the 777. It was the same process I do now on the 737 line. I worked up from a spotter to a senior painter. I traveled to other sites to train the painters 2 times while working there.