Netflix Aviation — Hangar 43

Netflix Aviation operates a fleet of five Gulfstream corporate jets out of Hangar 43 in Burbank — three hangars down from Jay Leno's Garage. An FP-300 handles corrosion and coating removal across that fleet, and has done since delivery.

The machine was the smaller half of the job. A 300 W Class IV laser inside a Part 145 maintenance hangar falls under OSHA, the FDA's laser product performance standard, FAA guidance for laser operations near aircraft, and — for European-certificated work — EASA, all at once. A shop that cannot document compliance with those cannot legally run the equipment, whatever it can do to a part.

So 432 Design wrote the program. The Laser Safety Manual covering hazard evaluation, engineering controls, interlocks and beam stops, PPE to ANSI Z136 at 1064 nm, access control and signage, pre-operation checklists, start-up and shutdown procedures, maintenance logging, emergency response and a semi-annual audit. The Laser Safety Officer role, its qualifications and its authority. The FAA side, including AC 70-1B and the Form 7140-1 process where a beam path can reach open hangar doors.

Then the harder piece: mapping all of it into a Safety Management System for EASA Part 145 — safety policy and measurable objectives, accountabilities from the Accountable Executive down to the technician, a risk register, hazard reporting under a just-culture policy, corrective-action tracking and a safety performance dashboard. The approach was to enhance rather than replace: the existing procedures stayed valid and became components of the larger SMS framework.

And the training. On-site, on their own aircraft: laser cleaning landing gear, reading heat levels and watching thermal build-up in real time so the process stays inside what the component can take.