NMS Blog — Aircraft Maintenance Labeling

Did you know a commercial aircraft has approximately 500 km of cabling and complex wiring infrastructures? Imagine if none of that wiring was labeled? Or, what if the fuel or the oil line wasn’t marked? 

Given the complexity of an aircraft, we can all imagine the need for this amount of wiring but what does it all do? For the most part, it works to connect all the electrical systems in an aircraft, otherwise known as avionics.