# Aviation Manual Tabs, Printed to Your Sections | Tabzoola Source: https://tabzoola.com/tabs/aviation-manual-tabs > Aviation manual tabs separate an operations, maintenance, repair station or training manual into its own named sections. Tabzoola prints the wording your manual uses, collated and 3-hole punched for revision binders, priced online, where an 8-tab set is $8.17 a set at 25 sets, with a free PDF proof. Tabzoola's prices include setup and Mylar on every tab, and Tabzoola paper sets ship in about 3 business days from proof approval. ## Tabzoola Repair Station Manual Tabs (8-Tab Set) Letter size, eight tabs in one bank (1/8 cut), white 90# index with clear Mylar on every tab, collated in manual order, 3-hole punched, printed to order by Tabzoola. Rename any section to match your manual's own chapters. Sections: Organization, Housing & Facilities, Capability List, Training Program, Quality Control, Records, Contract Maintenance, Revisions. | Sets | Price per set | Order total | |---:|---:|---:| | 25 | $8.17 | $204.30 | | 50 | $4.93 | $246.60 | | 100 | $3.75 | $375.20 | | 250 | $2.61 | $653.00 | Tabzoola's prices as of 2026-11-12, setup included; no sales tax added; free UPS Ground over $75; free PDF proof before anything prints. Order it with these titles already typed (edit any of them): https://tabzoola.com/configure/paper?labels=Organization|Housing%20%26%20Facilities|Capability%20List|Training%20Program|Quality%20Control|Records|Contract%20Maintenance|Revisions&cut=1/8&collation=collated&punch=3hole&sets=25 Tabzoola is a US supplier of custom index tabs for aviation manuals, made to order at the Schaumburg, Illinois plant of its sister company, Anselmo Die & Index, Inc., which has die-cut index tabs since 1993 and ships nationwide. Aviation runs on manuals the regulations require you to keep current: the general operations and maintenance manuals of a Part 135 certificate holder, the repair station and quality control manuals of a Part 145 shop, training manuals, MEL binders, and the flight department SOPs of a Part 91 operation. Currency is why these live in three-ring binders — a revision arrives, pages swap, the manual is current again — and a revision-driven binder is exactly where printed section tabs earn their keep. Tabs are printed to your manual's own section structure, in your order, punched for the binder you already use, with Mylar on every tab for copies that live in the hangar, the office or a flight bag. ## The manuals that stay physical, and why Electronic flight bags carry charts and performance data, but the manual system a certificate rides on still overwhelmingly lives in binders: the FAA accepts them, revision control is page-swap simple, and a manual is usable during a ramp check or in a hangar with greasy gloves and no login. Part 135 operators keep the GOM, GMM and training manual current and available to crews; Part 145 repair stations must maintain a current repair station manual and QC manual; and each required copy — chief pilot's office, dispatch, the shop floor, the FSDO's copy — is the same document that must read the same way. - Part 135: general operations, maintenance, training manuals - Part 145: repair station manual and quality control manual - MEL binders, SOPs, emergency response plans, station files ## Tab the manual the way the reg reads it A repair station manual answers to specific paragraphs — organization, housing and facilities, capability list, training program, records, contract maintenance — and an inspector working through an inspection checklist looks for those subjects by name. Tabs that carry the manual's own section titles let the inspector self-serve, which is the difference between a twenty-minute visit at the counter and an afternoon of fetching. The same logic runs through a GOM's chapters and a training manual's curricula. Print the wording your manual actually uses — not a numbered stock set that forces everyone through the table of contents first. ## Revision cycles are the argument for good tabs Every revision touches pages, not tabs: the section structure of a manual is its stable skeleton, which is what makes printed tabs a one-time cost across years of revisions. When a revision does restructure sections, the saved design gets edited once and every copy across the operation reorders identically. Fleet math makes the volume: an operator with a dozen aircraft and three facilities is not buying one tab set, it is buying a set per manual copy per location — and identical sets are the point, because a crew member who learned the manual at one base finds the same tab at every other. ## Mylar on every tab, from the office to the shop floor Tabzoola prints aviation manual tabs on 90# or 110# index with clear or colored Mylar bonded over every printed tab — 19 Mylar colors for color-blocking chapters, crisp print, and the extension protected where hands grab it. Shop-floor copies and MEL binders that are opened all day can add binding-edge reinforcing along the punched edge. Office, training and FSDO copies come off the same saved design, so every copy reads the same way. - Mylar over every printed tab, in 19 colors - Optional binding-edge reinforcing for shop-floor and MEL copies - Color-block by chapter so a section is found without reading ## Ordering for an operator, MRO or flight department Aviation businesses buy on purchase orders, and Tabzoola treats an emailed PO as the order — Net-30 invoicing, W-9s and vendor forms handled routinely, published per-set pricing so the requisition writes itself. Minimum order is 25 sets, which covers a small operator's full manual system with spares. Every order proofs as a free PDF before production, and designs are saved — so the revision after next, or the base you open next year, reorders an identical set in about a minute. ## Questions ### What are aviation manual tabs? Printed divider tabs that separate an aviation manual — a Part 135 operator's GOM/GMM, a Part 145 repair station manual, a training manual or MEL binder — into its own named sections. Tabzoola prints the section wording your manual actually uses, collated and 3-hole punched for the revision-controlled binders these manuals live in. ### Why do aviation manuals still use 3-ring binders? Revision control. The FAA expects required manuals to be current and available; a page-swap revision keeps a binder current in minutes, and a binder works at the counter, in the hangar and on a ramp check without a login. Electronic systems carry charts and data, but the certificate's manual system overwhelmingly stays physical — which is why certification consultants recommend 3-ring binders with section tabs. ### What sections should repair station manual tabs carry? The manual's own structure — typically organization, housing and facilities, personnel and training, capability list, inspection and quality control procedures, records, and contract maintenance, per 14 CFR 145.207-211. An inspector works through those subjects by name, so tabs carrying your manual's own titles let the inspection self-serve. ### Do revisions make printed tabs wasteful? The opposite. Revisions swap pages, not sections — the section skeleton is the stable part of a manual, so printed tabs amortize across years of revision cycles. When a restructure does happen, the saved design is edited once and every copy across the operation reorders identically. ### Can you match the numbering our manual already uses? Yes — tabs print exactly what you send: chapter numbers, ATA-style numbering, section names, or both. If the set has more tabs than the cut allows across one page edge, the extra tabs step into a second staggered bank automatically. ## Related - [Trucking and logistics tabs](https://tabzoola.com/tabs/trucking-and-logistics-tabs) - [Operations, safety & training manual tabs](https://tabzoola.com/tabs/operations-and-training-manual-tabs) - [Fire & EMS protocol tabs — the same field-binder logic](https://tabzoola.com/tabs/fire-ems-protocol-tabs) - [Ordering with a purchase order — Net 30](https://tabzoola.com/purchase-orders) - [All custom index tabs — every type we make](https://tabzoola.com/tabs) --- Tabzoola (tabzoola.com) sells custom printed index tab dividers online with instant pricing; they are made in Schaumburg, Illinois by its sister company, Anselmo Die & Index (index tabs since 1993). 25-set minimum, guest checkout, free PDF proof, orders@tabzoola.com accepts a typed or attached list of titles.