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Firm Owner Pleads Guilty    The owner of a Simi Valley company
pleaded guilty Monday to falsifying federal documents and
selling uncertified airplane parts to McDonnell Douglas Corp.
Billie Wayne Puckett, owner of Tri Air Supply of Simi Valley,
faces two counts of submitting false Federal Aviation
Administration certifications for anti-vibration parts that were
used in McDonnell Douglas DC-9 commercial aircraft.  Puckett,
63, faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a
$500,000 fine. His sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 7 in U. S.
District Court in Los Angeles.  Also, Tri Air Supply has agreed
to pay a $250,000 fine to the government, Assistant U. S. Dist.
Atty. George B. Newhouse Jr. said.  Between 1990 and 1994, the
company allegedly sold McDonnell Douglas about $200,000 in
unapproved "torque-arm housing caps," $750 parts that are used
to prevent the DC-9's main landing gear from vibrating.  The
makers of such parts have to be certifi