A distributor, a broker, an MRO and a component repair shop all move aircraft parts, and a buyer comparing systems is often shown the same demo for all four. But what each one sells is different — inventory, knowledge, capacity, capability — and the thing that goes wrong in each is different too.
These pages are written about the operation rather than about AERONEXUM. If you run one of these businesses, the useful question is whether the description matches your day. Where it does, the platform underneath is the same one in every case: the Aviation Operating Platform, holding one legible operational state across parts, repair, ownership and evidence.
A distributor owns inventory, and that one fact shapes the capital structure, the risk and the daily rhythm — from overnight RFQs to the carrier cutoff.
Speed is the product Aviation Parts BrokersA broker does not own the shelf. The product is knowing where material is, judging whether it is what it claims to be, and acting first.
Sells capacity MRO OrganizationsTaking in something unserviceable and giving back something airworthy, released by someone authorized to release it, inside a time the customer can plan around.
Specialist bench Component Repair ShopsDefined by a capability list, a bench and test equipment — plus knowledge of a narrow family of hardware that almost nobody else has.
If none of them is quite you
Plenty of aviation businesses are two of these at once — a distributor with a repair capability, an MRO that also trades surplus. The pages are written as four clean cases because that is the clearest way to describe them, not because the platform treats them as separate products. If your operation sits between two of them, read both and tell us which parts matched.
For the wider category map — what aviation software covers and where these operations sit inside it — start with Aviation Software, or see the product tour for real screens.