The challenge: how can an important new tool for fighting aviation crime, gain visibility quickly and continue to be a solution for potentially thousands of aviation professionals each day?

"The bottom line it was the right thing to do," remarks Michele Dickstein, President of the Aviation Suppliers Association (ASA). "Building and launching the first collective database containing over 8,100 stolen aviation parts and making it available to the public, is another important step in making the multibillion dollar aviation industry a safer environment for everyone it touches."

February 23, 2011 - This week, aviation criminals gain a new enemy and law enforcement agencies can benefit from an aviation partnership. Why? Because the first publically available, stolen parts database has been launched by the leading not-for-profit/industry partnership of the Washington D.C. , based Aviation Suppliers Association with support by Inventory Locator Service, a Boeing subsidiary.