Pilot John International — PJi Asset Center – GSE, Aircraft Parts, and Equipment Sales, Service, and Calibration

Most flight departments, FBOs and MROs still track ground support equipment the hard way: a spreadsheet of serial numbers, a binder of load-test certificates, and a maintenance manager who knows which tug is down because he walked past it. When an auditor asks for proof of inspection, or a second location needs a GPU that’s sitting idle at the first, the information lives in someone’s head.

Most flight departments, FBOs and MROs still track ground support equipment the hard way: a spreadsheet of serial numbers, a binder of load-test certificates, and a maintenance manager who knows which tug is down because he walked past it. When an auditor asks for proof of inspection, or a second location needs a GPU that’s sitting idle at the first, the information lives in someone’s head.

PJi Asset Center is a GSE asset management platform built into the pilotjohn.com account. It gives operators a single system of record for their ground support equipment — tugs, GPUs, jacks, test equipment, calibrated tooling — across every location:

Equipment register with maintenance notes, documents and certificates attached to each unit Fleet register with FAA registry lookup and CSV import, so equipment can be tied to the aircraft it supports Multi-location and team structure with role-based permissions, scoped by aircraft or location Equipment added automatically from purchase, so new units are in the system on day one QR labels (printed and shipped by PJi) that take a technician straight to the unit’s page from the ramp.

Unique differentiators

Backed by a GSE partner, not a software vendor. Pilot John International® sells, services, rents, finances and calibrates ground support equipment for customers in 140+ countries, and is the largest GSE distributor. The platform exists to keep that equipment flight-ready, which means the data model, service requests and parts flows are built around how GSE actually gets maintained. No subscription. Asset Center is included as part of being a PJi customer. There’s no per-seat license and no implementation project. Calibration and compliance built in. PJi operates an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited in-house calibration lab and holds ISO 9001:2015 certification, so calibrated tooling and test equipment can be managed alongside heavy GSE with the certificates where auditors expect them. Closed loop from record to resolution. Where most asset tools stop at tracking, Asset Center is designed so a unit’s page becomes the place to order the part, schedule the service, or pull up the manual. Works beyond aircraft. Built for aviation first, but the platform functions without an aircraft register, so shops, labs and multi-site maintenance operations can use it as well.