Eclipse Aerospace to Acquire Resurgent Aviation Solutions After Parts Maker Announced Liquidation

Eclipse Aerospace is set to acquire aftermarket parts and components maker Resurgent Aviation Solutions (RAS), under an agreement announced on October 9th, 2026. The deal follows Resurgent's announcement in May 2026 that it would liquidate all assets and cease operations, a move that threatened the airworthiness of the remaining fleet of about 260 Eclipse 500s and 550s.

Ed Lundeen, chief operating officer of Eclipse Aerospace, said the company sees value in acquiring certain STCs, technologies, methods and repair processes that RAS developed. He said these will allow Eclipse to provide a high level of integrated support for Eclipse 500 owners, operators and service centres worldwide.

Eclipse said it intends to continue operating the Part 145 repair centre and the FAA Production Approval Holder (PAH) authority for new parts under the RAS name. It is also "very likely" that the company will continue these operations in the same location currently occupied by RAS.

RAS founder and principal Cary Winter said the company was started ten years ago, when the Eclipse community urgently needed help maintaining their aircraft. He said it is highly unlikely an Eclipse 500 exists without a RAS STC or repaired part on it, and called the announcement the culmination of joint efforts with Eclipse Aerospace to maintain the value and economics of the aircraft.

RAS has developed multiple repair processes that allow faster and more cost-effective repair of line-replaceable unit (LRU) components, and it also manufactures new Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA) parts. Winter said RAS is pleased to reach agreement with Eclipse Aerospace, "the one company as committed to the aircraft as we are."

Small light-jet fleets of a few hundred airframes depend on a thin layer of independent suppliers, because the original manufacturer's support often shrinks long before the aircraft stop flying. When one of those suppliers holds the STCs, PMA approvals and repair know-how that owners rely on, its failure is a fleet-level risk rather than a company-level one. Here the liquidation announced in May put that risk on about 260 aircraft.

Absorbing the supplier is a different outcome from simply licensing its parts. Eclipse is taking the technologies, repair processes and the Part 145 and PAH authorities together, which keeps the approvals and the repair capability in one place. For owners of an out-of-production type, that concentration usually matters more than any single part price, because repair turnaround and parts availability set how long an aircraft stays on the ground.

The next milestones are operational. Eclipse has said it intends to continue the repair centre and the PAH authority under the RAS name, and that continuing at the current location is "very likely". Whether the repair processes and new-part output carry over unchanged is what Eclipse Aerospace and RAS customers will be able to judge from the first months of operation under the new ownership.