Officials with Bluetail report the company is celebrating its first anniversary with the introduction of its new digital records search and automation tool: MACH Search.
Built specifically for business and general aviation aircraft owners and operators, Bluetail allows aircraft owners to store, search and share data, including logbooks, manuals, maintenance documents, and more.
“A year ago, we marked the anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic by launching Bluetail. By making it easy and affordable to digitize aircraft records, we set out to revolutionize the way business and general aviation aircraft owner/operators organized, shared, and protected valuable records,” said Bluetail Co-Founder Stuart Illian. “Today, I’m very happy to say that in the past 12 months, even with COVID restrictions, and other challenges, we’ve exceeded our original goals.”
The new MACH Search capability brings Optical Character Recognition (OCR) machine-learning capabilities into the world of business and private aviation, added Bluetail Co-Founder Roberto Guerrieri.
“Building on our cloud-native Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform, MACH Search enables true ‘rocket science’ level business process automation, sorting, storing, and searching,” he said. “Bluetail’s MACH Search now makes record-keeping the easiest part of your aircraft operations.”
Guerrieri explained that MACH Search is the culmination of input from a long list of the company’s customer base, including Fortune 500 flight departments, Part 135 charter operators, individual owners, aircraft brokers, and flight schools.
“To ensure that MACH Search would be live upon launch for our customers, we ran their records in parallel to the technology’s development,” he added. “To date, we’ve run over 1 million client records through the MACH machine learning code.”
According to company officials, the MACH Search:
- Combines document workflow with auto-OCR machine learning to streamline the ingestion, organization, and search of detailed aircraft operations and maintenance records.
- Recognizes handwriting and lets you search by A&P signature or inspector sign-offs.
- Lets you upload records from your phone, tablet, or computer.
- Lets you search all of the digital records by numbers, text, or form.
- Lets you save your search criteria as a new search profile.