Corporate Officer Jailed in Scheme to Sell Scrap Aircraft Parts

Office of Inspector General

Title:	Corporate Officer Jailed in Scheme to Sell Scrap Aircraft Parts
Date:	March 17, 2003
Type:	Investigation
Summary:	RTS Services, Inc., an aircraft parts broker, and Roger Sickler, a corporate officer, were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth, TX, for their role in a scheme to sell scrapped aircraft parts as FAA-approved parts for commercial and military aircraft. Sickler was sentenced to 3 years in jail, and RTS Services was sentenced to 3 years’ probation, making it ineligible for government contract work for that period. Both the firm and Sickler were also ordered to pay $250,000 in restitution to Kollsman, Inc., an avionics company in Merrimack, NH, for kickbacks RTS paid to a Kollsman employee in exchange for aircraft- part repair orders. Instead of working on these parts, RTS farmed the work out and then charged highly inflated prices for the repairs, which the Kollman employee authorized as necessary. This investigation was conducted by the OIG and DCIS, with assistance from the FAA.