Records Litigation Support
Independent records interpretation for disputed maintenance histories.
Case-by-case support for attorneys, owners, and insurers when a dispute turns on what aircraft maintenance records establish, contradict, or leave unresolved. Every matter begins with a written conflict check, a verified-qualification review, and an agreed scope.
What this is
Records-anchored analysis for disputed maintenance histories.
Independent A&P/IA review focused on the documentary record: what the logbooks, 337s, AD/SB status, work orders, and supporting evidence establish, contradict, or leave open — presented in a form usable in negotiation, mediation, or, where separately scoped, a written work product for counsel.
- Records interpretation: independent reading of logbook entries, 337s, AD/SB compliance evidence, and supporting work orders against applicable data.
- Chronology reconstruction: aircraft maintenance timeline assembled from source documents, with gaps, contradictions, and unresolved items marked.
- Discrepancy history analysis: how squawks, deferrals, and repairs were recorded, resolved, or carried — and what the records support.
- Pre-buy and annual finding review: independent look at how findings were documented, disclosed, and addressed relative to the records available at the time.
- Written work product: findings memos organized to separate observation, basis, assumption, and open question.
Expert-report or testimony work — including expert witness, deposition, or trial testimony — is accepted only when the assignment matches Tyler Thomas's verified qualifications and the retained scope. No engagement, opinion, testimony, or outcome is implied by an inquiry.
Who engages this work
- — Attorneys handling aircraft transaction, insurance, or maintenance disputes.
- — Owners with a pre-buy, annual, or repair outcome that does not match the records.
- — Insurers evaluating claims that turn on maintenance history or documentation.
Independence & conflicts
Engagements are accepted only after a written conflict check against known parties, aircraft, and prior work. The deliverable is independent analysis anchored to the records and applicable data — not advocacy for a predetermined conclusion.
Approach
Evidence before opinion.
Same discipline used on pre-purchase records intelligence, applied to disputed histories: observations, basis, assumptions, and open questions kept distinct throughout the work product.
Step 01
Conflict check & scope
Written conflict check and a scope agreement identifying the aircraft, records under review, and the questions the engagement is retained to answer.
Step 02
Records assembly
Available logbooks, 337s, AD/SB evidence, work orders, and correspondence organized into a single source-referenced working set.
Step 03
Analysis
Chronology reconstruction, records interpretation, and discrepancy tracking, with each finding tied to a specific source page and the applicable data.
Step 04
Written work product
Findings memo scoped to the retained questions. Expert-report or testimony work is separately scoped and accepted only where it matches Tyler Thomas's verified qualifications.
Engage
Request scope & availability.
Send the venue and posture (pre-litigation, active matter, mediation), the aircraft and time frame, the records available, and the questions you need answered. A written conflict check precedes any substantive review.
Scope
Records litigation support is independent technical review of maintenance records. It is not legal advice, not an airworthiness determination, and not an approval for return to service. Engagements are accepted case by case after a written conflict check and a verified-qualification review; no engagement, opinion, testimony, or outcome is implied by an inquiry.