On December 7, 2023, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) debarred Spares, Inc., a machine shop located in Florence, Oregon, from participating in Federal non-procurement and procurement transactions for a period of 3 years.
On July 19, 2023, Spares was sentenced to 5 years of probation, an $8,500 fine, a $400 special assessment, and a forfeiture of $945,165.89 less the value of tools and equipment used to manufacture aircraft parts forfeited by Spares following an earlier guilty plea to one count of aircraft parts fraud.