The Current Issue on the End-of-Life Aircraft (ELA)

Abstract

This paper studies the Influence on fleet status of regulation for the aircraft noise and the emission of greenhouse gases, and argues the necessity of the recycling process of composite material generated from End-of-Life Aircraft (ELA). Lately, there have been movements aim to systematize the recycling process of ELA. Aircraft part manufacturers in Japan play an important role at a stage of production. Nevertheless, those manufacturers have not taken part in such movements. It is predicted that market about the ELA spreads in future. Consequently, the participation of the Japanese company with superior technology in Processing of ELA is strongly expected.