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Airworthiness Requirements - Free Download PDF
August 18, 2017 | Author: gustavojorge12 | Category: Federal Aviation Administration, Aerospace Engineering, Aeronautics, Aviation, Politics
FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements
Presented to: STL-FSDO part 135 Certificate Holders By: Steven Long, Airworthiness Safety Inspector Date: April 19, 2012
OBJECTIVES • Applicable Regulations for Airworthiness • Definitions related to Airworthiness • Preflight and Postflight Airworthiness requirements • Maintenance and Inspection Rules review
FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements April 19, 2012
Applicable Regulations • Part 1 – Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance
• Part 3 – Definitions; Airworthiness, Product, Records (§ 3.5a)
• Part 39 – § 37.7
• Part 43 – Maintenance and Inspection records
Applicable Regulations • Part 91 – Civil Aircraft Airworthiness (§ 91.7 ) – Subpart E Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, and Alterations • Required maintenance; Maintenance records • Part 135 • Flight Operations – Reporting Mechanical Irregularities – Airworthiness Check • Subpart J Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, and Alterations FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements April 19, 2012
Caution • Regulations don’t necessarily stand alone • Many regulations within a part will mimic and are linked to regulations in other parts – Example- Maintenance Records: § 91.405/91.417 and § 43.9/43.11 – Example- Inspections: § 91.409 and § 135.411
DEFINITIONS Or singing from the same music sheet
§ 1.1 Definitions • Preventive Maintenance: • Simple or minor preservation operation and the replacement of small standard parts not involving complex assembly operations
• Maintenance: • Inspection, overhaul, repair, preservation, and the replacement of parts, but excluding preventive maintenance FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements April 19, 2012
§ 1.1 Definitions • Person means: – an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, jointstock association, or governmental entity. It includes a trustee, receiver, assignee, or similar representative of any of them.
§ 3.5 Definitions • Airworthiness: • The aircraft conforms to its type design and is in a condition for safe operation.
• Record: • Any writing, drawing, map, recording, tape, film, photograph or other documentary material which information is preserved or conveyed [with]…attached to or inscribed on any product, part, appliance or material.
• Product: • An aircraft, aircraft engine, or aircraft propeller. FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements April 19, 2012
Supplementary • Return to service: – Commonly applied to the PIC or the Certificate Holder who accepts the aircraft as being in an airworthy state for operation. • Approve for return to service – Applies to the person who has performed maintenance or preventive maintenance IAW part 43, including the requirement to record the work FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements April 19, 2012
PART 91: SUBPART E • Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, and Alterations [rules]
– 11 sections, – 9 enforceable, – 8 directed at owners or operators (not maintenance personnel)
PART 135 SUBPART J • Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, and Alterations – Some rules for 9 or less passengers - some rules for 10 or more passengers • 18 sections • 16 enforceable on the Certificate Holder • 6 enforceable on 9 or less passenger aircraft • 13 enforceable on 10 or more passenger aircraft FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements April 19, 2012
Part 135 Maintenance Requirements • 9 or less passengers – Part 91 subpart E requirements • §’s 91.207 & 91.213 – § 135.411(a) Inspection Program – Service Difficulty reporting – Mechanical Interruption Summary reporting • Multiengine aircraft – Additional Maintenance requirements – Aging Aircraft Inspections for multiengine airplanes FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements April 19, 2012
Part 135 Maintenance Requirements • 10 or more passengers:
• Part 91 subpart E requirements – – – – – – – – – – – –
§’s 91.207 & 91.213 § 135.411(b) Maintenance Program § 135.169 Additional Airworthiness Requirements Service Difficulty reporting Mechanical Interruption Summary reporting Maintenance organization Aircraft Maintenance program w/Inspection program Required Inspection Personnel (RII) Continuing Analysis and Surveillance (CASS) Maintenance training program Maintenance recording requirements Aircraft Airworthiness Release
Responsible Party • § 91.403: The owner or operator of an aircraft is primarily responsible for maintaining that aircraft in an airworthy condition… • § 135.413: Each certificate holder is primarily responsible for the airworthiness of its aircraft…
Aircraft Airworthiness Preflight • § 91.7: Civil Aircraft Airworthiness – (a) No person may operate an aircraft unless it is in an airworthy condition. – (b) The pilot in command… is responsible for determining whether that aircraft is in condition for safe flight.
Aircraft Airworthiness Preflight • § 91.405- Operation after maintenance, preventive maintenance, rebuilding, or alteration. • (a) No person may operate any aircraft that has undergone maintenance, preventive maintenance, rebuilding, or alteration unless-– (1) It has been approved for return to service by a person authorized under Sec. 43.7 of this chapter; and – (2) The maintenance record entry required by Sec. 43.9 or Sec. 43.11, as applicable, of this chapter has been made.
Required Maintenance • § 91.405: Each owner or operator • (a) “…shall between required inspections…have discrepancies repaired… • (b) “Shall ensure that maintenance personnel make appropriate entries…indicating the aircraft has been approved for return to service.”
Required Maintenance • § 91.405: Each owner or operator • (c) Shall have inoperative [equipment] permitted to be inoperative per § 91.213(d)(2) repaired, replaced, removed, or inspected at the next required inspection; and • (d) “When listed discrepancies include inoperative [equipment]…shall ensure that a placard has been installed…”
Reporting Mechanical Irregularities Preflight/Postflight • § 135.65: – (a) Each Cert. holder shall provide an aircraft maintenance log onboard each aircraft… – (b) The pilot in command shall enter or have entered…each mechanical irregularity. Before each flight each PIC shall determine the status of each irregularity entered in the maintenance log – (c) Each person who takes or defers corrective action…shall record the action taken FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements April 19, 2012
Airworthiness Check Preflight • § 135.71: – The pilot in command may not begin a flight unless the pilot determines that the airworthiness inspections have been made • Annual inspection, and • 100 hour inspection, or • Progressive inspection, or • AAIP
Maintenance Records • § 91.417 – Must keep and maintain the following records until the aircraft is transferred: • TOTAL TIME of each aircraft, aircraft engine, propeller, rotor. • Current status of all life limited parts. • Time since last overhaul of equipment that are required to be overhauled on a specified time basis. FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements April 19, 2012
Maintenance Records • § 91.417 – The following records must be retained until the work is repeated or superseded or for 1 year • Inspection records • Maintenance records – A list of defects furnished under § 43.11 until the defects are repaired and the aircraft is approved for returned to service. FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements April 19, 2012
Maintenance Records • § 91.417 – The records must include: • A description of the work performed or a reference acceptable to the Administrator of acceptable data; and • The date of completion of the work; and • The signature of the person approving the aircraft for return to service with a signature, certificate number
Maintenance Records • § 91.417: Airworthiness Directives (AD’s) – AD records must include: • The current status of applicable AD’s • The method of compliance • The AD number and revision date • If a recurring AD, the time and date when the next action is required
Part 39 Airworthiness Directives • FAA's airworthiness directives are legally enforceable rules on the following … – aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers, and appliances • FAA issues an airworthiness directive addressing a product when we find that: – (a) An unsafe condition exists in the product; and – (b) The condition is likely to exist or develop in other products of the same type design • Anyone who operates a product that does not meet the requirements of an applicable airworthiness directive is in violation of § 39.7.
Maintenance Records • § 43.9 – Each person performing preventive maintenance, maintenance, rebuilds or alters…shall make an entry in the maintenance record…containing the following information: • A description of the work performed or a reference acceptable to the Administrator of acceptable data; and • The date of completion of the work; and • The name of the person completing the work if other than the person approving the [work] for return to service • The signature of the person approving the [work] for return to service with a signature, certificate number and kind of certificate FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements April 19, 2012
Advisory Circular 43-9C Maintenance Records • Paragraph 5 Maintenance Record Requirements • (d) Section 91.417(a)(l)(i). Requires the maintenance record entry to include “a description of the work performed.” – The description should be in sufficient detail to permit a person unfamiliar with the work to understand what was done, and the methods and procedures used in doing it.
Inspection Record • §43.11: The person approving or disapproving for return to service…after any inspection required by part 91, 125, § 135.411(a)(1), and § 135.419 shall make an entry…containing the following: – The type of inspection and a brief description of the extent of the inspection – The date of the inspection and the aircraft TOTAL TIME – The signature of the person approving or disapproving for return to service the inspection with their certificate number and kind of certificate FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements April 19, 2012
Inspection Record • § 43.11 – Except for progressive Inspections a declaration of airworthiness or unairworthiness must be made in the aircraft record – For a progressive inspection a statement indicating a routine inspection of the aircraft or component of such (identify the components) and a detailed inspection of (identify components) FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements April 19, 2012
Review • Applicable Regulations – Parts 1, 3, 39, 43, 91, 135
• Definitions – Parts 1 & 3
• Preflight and Postflight airworthiness requirements – Parts 91 & 135
• Maintenance and Inspection Rules review – Parts 39, 43, 91, & 135 FAA part 135 Airworthiness Requirements April 19, 2012
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