1. A method for providing a location specific maintenance history for an object, said method comprising: operating an integrated handheld device having a camera and a projector to locate at least one marker tag within the camera field-of-view (FOV), said at least one marker tag having registration fiducials with embedded three dimensional position data correlating to a CAD database to provide a reference to a coordinate system associated with the object; determining a location on the object as defined by the at least one marker tag and an associated area; and, projecting onto a region of projection (ROP) on the object, a repair history including a visualization of location and extent of the repair and a data block with descriptive text for the associated area with the projector, the ROP referenced to the coordinate system associated with the object.