You know the feeling. Somewhere in your hangar right now, there’s a binder—or worse, a shared drive full of spreadsheets—holding dent and buckle records for your fleet. Every time an engineer opens one of those files, they scroll through rows and columns trying to figure out which damage belongs where, what was deferred during the last C-check, and whether that dent on the lower forward fuselage has already been reported. It works, sort of. Until it doesn’t.
And yet, when someone suggests replacing that system with software, the room goes quiet. Most teams have lived through at least one IT project that took eighteen months, required a dedicated internal team, and still didn’t do what was promised. That skepticism is understandable—but it doesn’t apply here.
Built by an engineer who got tired of Excel
Dent & Buckle didn’t come out of a software lab—we built it out of frustration. In 2014, our founder, Kristinn Fannar Pálsson (a certified aircraft structural engineer), looked at the paper-based dent and buckle charts he was using every day and decided there had to be a better way. He wasn’t an IT consultant chasing a market opportunity. He was the end user, standing in front of the aircraft and dealing with the same pain you’re dealing with now.
We designed Dent & Buckle with aircraft engineers, for aircraft engineers. The interface speaks your language—not IT jargon.
You don’t implement it. We Do.
Here’s where most people expect the catch. Surely there’s a six-month onboarding phase? A requirements workshop? A data-migration nightmare? No. We handle the heavy lifting. We configure a dedicated site on Microsoft Azure servers located in your region. We install and customize the 3D aircraft models for your fleet—over 70 model variants are already supported. We take your existing data (in almost any format you have) and migrate it into the system. We can even position existing defects onto the 3D models for you.
You’re not buying software and then figuring out how to make it work. You hand over your data and we deliver a working system back. That’s a fundamentally different experience from the enterprise rollouts that left scars on engineering departments.
Training that doesn’t eat Your week
One of the first questions engineering managers ask is: “How long until my team can actually use this?” The honest answer is surprisingly short. Because we built the software around how structural engineers already think and work, the learning curve is minimal. We’re intentional about keeping training requirements low because the product is intuitive and low-complexity. That’s not marketing spin—it’s a design philosophy that comes from our founder being the user.
Every customer gets a free, eight-hour online training session included with implementation. Eight hours—not eight days, and not a certification program. Your team watches, practices, and starts working. For most engineers, the interface clicks during first use because it mirrors the logic they already apply when assessing structural damage.
Twenty-plus customers. Thousands of aircraft. It works.
This isn’t a prototype. We’ve implemented Dent & Buckle for more than twenty customers worldwide, with thousands of aircraft fully migrated. Cathay Pacific uses it. So do ATSG, Transavia France, and Fokker Services. These aren’t small operations running a trial—they’re established airlines and MROs that put the system through rigorous evaluation and chose it because it delivered.
When you see that list, you’re not looking at early adopters taking a gamble. You’re looking at proof that our implementation model works at scale—across different fleet types, regulatory environments, and organizational structures.
They don’t disappear after Go-Live
Post-implementation support is continuous. We stay with you after you go live. When your fleet changes, when you add a new aircraft type, or when you want to integrate your MRO system, we’re there. This isn’t a license-and-leave arrangement—it’s an ongoing partnership.
So what’s actually stopping You?
If you’re still tracking dents and buckles in spreadsheets, paper charts, or other 2D diagrams, the barrier is rarely budget or technology. More often, it’s the assumption that switching will be painful. That made sense ten years ago, when every software change meant a full IT project. It doesn’t hold up when we configure your system, migrate your data, train your team in a day, and stay on the line after go-live.
At Dent & Buckle, we offer a 60-minute live demo that walks you through exactly how this works for your fleet and operation. No slideware. No sales pitch. Just the product running with real aircraft models. If you’ve been putting off this decision, that single hour might be what changes your mind.
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