Aerospace & Aviation MRO

Laan Labs builds inspection and documentation tools for aircraft maintenance, teardown and parts reuse. An inspector captures an airframe or a component with a phone; the result is a navigable 3D record in which every photograph and every finding is tied to the place it was observed, and which an engineer elsewhere can open in a browser or review at full scale in a headset. Laan Labs' RadianceView platform has been used to document end-of-life airliners so that parts can be assessed for reuse.

Aircraft inspection generates photographs by the thousand and notes by the page, and the link between them and the airframe lives in the inspector's head. When a part's history is questioned months later, or an engineer on another continent needs to judge a repair, that link is gone. A 3D record keeps it: the overview shows where on the aircraft, the splat shows what it looked like, and the high-resolution photograph shows the detail.

This matters most at the end of an aircraft's life, when the value is in the components and the evidence of their condition. A retired airliner is recorded once, before it is taken apart, and each part carries that record with it into reuse, remanufacture or recycling.

How Laan Labs helps

Whole-airframe capture

An entire aircraft recorded as a photorealistic Gaussian splat with ordinary cameras and phones, giving a walk-around view in which any area can be found again.

Part-level condition records

Close-range scans and high-resolution photographs of components, placed on the airframe and stored with the part's identity, so its condition at removal is documented.

Findings tied to location

Dents, corrosion, wear and missing items marked where they were seen, with measurements and photographs, in a record that can be filtered, reported and audited.

Remote expert review

Engineers and customers open the record in a browser, look around and measure without travelling to the hangar, and agree on a disposition from the same evidence.

Review in a headset

The same capture viewed at full scale on Apple Vision Pro, where a reviewer can walk around a part and pull up its photographs in place, as described in the aerospace inspection case study.

AI-assisted findings

Vision and language models that pre-screen imagery for likely defects and draft the finding text for an inspector to confirm, reducing the time between capture and report.

Confidential by design

Processing on the operator's own hardware and network when aircraft, customer or program confidentiality requires it, with access controlled per aircraft and per part.

Where to start

A first engagement is usually one aircraft or one class of part. Laan Labs captures it with the client's team using equipment they already have, delivers the record in RadianceView, and reviews with inspectors and engineers how it fits their existing documentation and approval steps.

From there the workflow can be adopted as it stands on RadianceView, or built into the client's own maintenance systems. A visual record supports certified inspection and airworthiness processes; it does not replace them.

Laan Labs products in this field

• RadianceView — Inspection-grade visual records in a browser
• 3D Splat App — Gaussian splat training on Mac, with no cloud upload

Common questions