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"They won our business through some research where
they put together tool lists from all of the different airlines
and employers where our graduates would be going to, and
then they went back and put together tool lists from all the
different A&P schools, from part 147 schools, and they combined all those lists and threw them on the table and said,
'Look, we've been doing some research and it looks like you
have a common theme here. Could we put together a box
that makes sense for your students?'" Sasso recounts.
While Sonic Tools' Intermediate Toolbox boasts everything
a mechanic in the field might need, it's unique in other
aspects, as well - chiefly shadowing the toolbox, which
Sasso says helps teach students a valuable lesson.
"Sonic has this great idea where they've pre-shadowed
all the toolboxes, and tool control is paramount in aviation
and so having the shadowing in the toolbox, it makes the
mechanic or trains the younger mechanic to keep track of
their tools, and to make sure they don't end up in an airplane somewhere," says Sasso.

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Shadowing may not be a new technique for toolboxes.
Used in the automotive tooling world for efficiency, Saxton
says that he recognized that tool control was the paramount
advantage to a shadowed aviation toolbox.
"When I came on board with the company back in 2016, I
saw the value of the shadowing in the aviation world, which
was tool control. It was nothing about efficiency, but tool
control. So, we built a box back in 2016, went after the aviation world, caught the attention of a few people, and then
evolved our box according," Saxton says.

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No doubt the features of Sonic Tools' box are helpful for
the budding aviation mechanic, however, there remains
the issue of sticker shock and a mechanic leaving school
with either no or an inadequate set of tools. This, though,
too Sonic Tools has covered by offering financing to AIM
students.
"We've got some programs set up that help with financing and stuff for the people who are with lower-end credit
scores. So, we have a program with them that helps ensure

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