Factors Affecting Success in Organizational and Intermediate Level Aircraft Maintenance for F-16 AM/BM of Squadron 403, Wing 4, Royal Thai Air Force

Abstract

This research aims to study 1) the differences in personal factors affecting success of aircraft maintenance; 2) the relationship between spare parts inventory management factor for aircraft maintenance, and success of aircraft maintenance; and 3) the relationship between organizational factors and aircraft maintenance success. The population are officers of the Wing 4 Air Force Base. The data are collected by using questionnaires with 200 samples from purposive sampling. The data analysis consists of descriptive statistics including frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation; and inferential statistics comprising t-test, One-way ANOVA or F-test, LSD-test and multiple regression analysis.

The results show that respondents have an overall view on the factors of spare parts management of aircraft maintenance, factors of organization, and success in organizational and intermediate level aircraft maintenance at a high level of agreement. For the hypothesis testing, it is found that the variety of military corps has different effects on success in organizational and intermediate level aircraft maintenance, factors of spare parts inventory management for aircraft maintenance (forecasting and demand management), and factors of organization (chain of command and knowledge management) affecting success in organizational and intermediate level aircraft maintenance at a significant level of 0.05.