Airworthiness_Assessment_Technical_Evaluation_Training.pdf

AF Life Cycle Management Center

Providing the Warfighter’s Edge

Lisa Glover

Gary B. Welch

Airworthiness Inspector

AFLCMC/EZSA

DSN: 656-4221

Airworthiness Assessment

Technical Evaluation Training

Nov 15, 2017

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Airworthiness Office POCs

• Lisa Glover, STBR, L@6

– lisa.glover@us.af.mil, 937-656-9442

• Yadira Ayalamarrero,

– STBA COCO Technical Expert

– yadira.ayalamarrero.1@us.af.mil

• Gary B. Welch, Lead Aviation Safety Inspector

– gary.welch.4@us.af.mil, 937-656-4221

• USAF Airworthiness Office

– Usaf.airworthiness.office@us.af.mil mailto:lisa.glover@us.af.mil mailto:yadira.ayalamarrero.1@us.af.mil

Airworthiness Policy Structure

Title 10 United States Code, Chapter 803, Section 8013

DoD Directive 5030.61, DoD Airworthiness Policy

Air Force Policy Directive 62-6, USAF Airworthiness

Air Force Instruction 62-601, USAF Airworthiness

AFMC Supplement to AFI 62-601, USAF Airworthiness

Airworthiness

Bulletins

(AWB)

AFLCMC

Operating

Instruction

62-601

AFLCMC

Standard Process for

Reportable

Airworthiness

Flight Authorization

ALOHA AIRLINES

N73711

ALOHA AIRLINES

N73711

Airworthiness Defined

• Airworthy defined:

– Conforms to its type design

– Is in a condition for safe operation.

• Who’s responsible

– Owner / Operator

• What is recorded

– Inspections, Repairs, and Airworthiness Directives

• Who can do this

– Properly qualified / authorized person

• 14 CFR 43.3 and 43.7

The Maintenance Program “The What?”

• The FAA defines a Maintenance Program:

‒ The performance of tasks required to ensure the continuing airworthiness of an aircraft, including any one or combination of overhaul, inspection, replacement, defect rectification, and the embodiment of an alteration or repair.“

• Most operators adopt the manufacturers recommendations exactly.

• They may choose to alter the program to best suit their operations

‒ Permitted as long as continued airworthiness and safety can be shown.

• Changes to the program would have to be approved by the aviation authority having jurisdiction over the operator before they could be implemented.

Program Elements

Civil Operations

• Maintenance Manual (Technical Data)

• Aircraft Inspection Program (Work Cards etc)

• Organization (Organizational Chart)

• Training (Maintenance & Flight Operations)

• Maintenance Scheduling (Planning when to do the work)

• Maintenance Recording & Record Keeping

(Documenting the work and retaining the record)

USAF Operations

TO 00-5-1 (Air Force Tech Order System)

TO 00-20-1 (Maintenance Inspection / Policies &

Procedures)

AFI 38-101 (Air Force manpower and Organization)

AFI 36-2201 (Air Force Training Program)

TO 00-20-1 (Maintenance Inspection / Policies &

Procedures)

TO 00-20-2 (Maintenance Data Documentation)

Civil Operations

Maint Manual

A.I.P. (Insp Prog)

Organization (Org

Chart)

Training (Mx & Ops)

Mx Scheduling

Mx Recording &

Record Keeping

USAF Operations

TO 00-5-1

TO 00-20-1

AFI 38-101 (Org

Chart)

AFI 36-2201

TO 00-20-1

TO 00-20-2

“It’s a Small World After All “

Civil Operations

Maint Manual

A.I.P. (Insp Prog)

Organization (Org Chart)

Training (Mx & Ops)

Mx Scheduling

Mx Recording &

Record Keeping

USAF Operations

TO 00-5-1

TO 00-20-1

AFI 38-101 (Org Chart)

AFI 36-2201

TO 00-20-1

TO 00-20-2

“It’s a Small World After All “

Assumes Industry

Infrastructure

Assumes USAF

Infrastructure

Records Reason and Content

• Why make and keep aircraft records ?

• What is recorded

– All Maintenance, Preventative Maintenance &

Alterations

– Approved inspections (100 hr, annual, progressive etc.) Whatever your AIP (Approved or Accepted

Inspection program) consists of

• Must Include

– Description of work performed, date of completion and signature & certificate number of person approving aircraft for return to service

Records Reason and Content cont.

• .. Must Include cont.

– Description of work performed, date of completion and signature & certificate number of person approving aircraft for Ret to Svc.

– Current status of Life Limited Parts

– Time since Overhaul of installed (O/H affected items)

• Records Retention

– Legal versus Logical

• 14 CFR 91.417

Records Retention Legal or Logical

Airworthiness Certificates Types and Limits

• Standard (8100-2)

– Issued by FAA after flight testing is completed

AND certification standards have been met

– Issued to aircraft in the following categories:

normal, utility, acrobatic, commuter, and transport.

• Special (8130-7)

– May be issued to aircraft that are not Type certified

(including Ex Military) or

– With modifications that negate compliance with previous Type Certification

Airworthiness Certificates Types and Limits

• Standard (8100-2)

– Issued by FAA after flight testing is completed AND certification standards have been met

– Issued to aircraft in the following categories: normal, utility, acrobatic, commuter, and transport.

Airworthiness Certificates Types and Limits

• Special (8130-7)

– May be issued to aircraft that are Not Type certified

(including Ex Military) or with modifications that negate original type certification

Service Bulletins (They’re just suggestions right?)

• Service Bulletin:

– Is a notice to an aircraft operator from a manufacturer informing him/her of a product improvement.

– An “Alert” service bulletin is issued when an unsafe condition shows up that the manufacturer believes to be a safety related as opposed to a mere improvement of a product.

– Alert Service Bulletins usually end up as Airworthiness

Directives (AD’s)

• Mandatory Service Bulletins

Service Bulletins

• Aloha Airlines Flight 243

• Boeing 737-200 (line number 152), N73711

• 4 S/B’s issued for Upper Crown Skin

Disbonding (1970, 1972, 1974 and 1987)

• Related AD issued in 1987

• Failure event occurred in 1988

Occurred in 1988

Boeing 737-200 (line number 152), N73711

AW Assessment Checklist

Contractor/Offeror:

Aircraft Make/Model:

Aircraft N-Number & Serial:

Evaluator:

Location:

Date:

Operational History:

Aggregate Flight Hours for this Make/Model, All Sources:

Aggregate Number of Mishaps, All Causes:

Aggregate Number of Accidents/Incidents reported to NTSB IAW 49 CFR 830:

ID

Checklist Item

Description Background/Notes for Evaluator (Informational)

1.0

Aircr aft

Airw orthi ness

Doc ume ntati on and

Rec ords

1.1 Review Aircraft Registration

- Is aircraft legally registered in accordance with FAA regulations?

- Ensure paper matches aircraft

- Observe if the aircraft owner is the same as who contract is with

1.2 Review Airworthiness Certificate

- Standard Airworthiness Certificate, FAA Form 8100-2

1.3 Is aircraft on a Part 125/121/135/137 or 141 certificates? Y/N

If so indicate which one and the FAA Certificate Holding District Office (CHDO)

1.4 Obtain and Review TCDS Note latest AFM/POH

Note any limitations

1.5 Obtain copies of any Major repairs or alterations apply to aircraft, airframe, aircraft engine, propeller or appliance (Form 337s, 8110-3s), or review engineering substantiation (e.g. analysis report)

Note: Look for any Supplemental Type Certificates (STC) that are documented on 337’s. Some STC’s may have

Flight manual supplements to POH, if so verify flight manual supplement is installed.

You can look up STC by the following link:

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgST

C.nsf/MainFrame?OpenFrameSet

Call the FAA office that holds the STC if there are any questions.

Note: Some STC have maintenance requirements, known as Instructions for Continued Airworthiness (ICA) as required by 14 CFR part 21.50(d). If there are any then they will be listed on the STC and should also be noted on the FAA Form 337. Some older STC many not have any or some should have but the STC holder and FAA did not make any.

Operator Inspection for Continued Airworthiness

Contractor/Offeror:

Evaluator:

Location:

Date:

ID

Checklist Item

Description Background/Notes for Evaluator (Informational)

3.0

Aircraft

Inspecti on, Mainte nance, and

Modica tion

Record s

3.1 Determine type of inspection program under 14 CFR part 91.409

-Small aircraft (CE-172, PA-28) will be under an:

(a)(1)Annual Inspection “or”

(b) 100 hour “or”

(d) Progressive Inspection

-Large airplanes (turbojet multiengine airplane, turbo propeller-powered or turbine-powered rotorcraft) (Lear 35, CL-604, King Air, Cessna 208) will be under an:

(f)(2) Continuous Airworthiness inspection program (CAMP) part 121/135 certificate holders only.

(f)(3) inspection program recommended by the manufacture (this is the most common)

(f)(4) Inspection program established by the owner/operator approved by the FAA under 91.409(g)

Note turbine-powered rotorcraft can elected to use the inspection provisions of 91.409(a), (b), (c) or (d) in lieu of an inspection option of 91.409(f).

Review maintenance logs to determine how aircraft is maintained in accordance with an inspection program meeting the scope and content described in § 91.409(f). The owner/operator must select and identify in the aircraft maintenance records one of the following programs for the inspection of the aircraft:

(a) For type-certificated aircraft, a current inspection program recommended by the manufacturer; or

(b) For former military aircraft, an inspection program recommended turbine engine by the manufacturer or North Atlantic Treaty

Organization (NATO) airplanes, military service; or

(c) An FAA-approved inspection program.

Note: To extend an inspection interval, the owner/operator must submit a request for that extension with supporting documentation and data to the local FSDO and obtain concurrence from that FSDO.

Inspections must be recorded in the aircraft maintenance records showing the following, or a similarly worded, statement: “I certify that this aircraft has been inspected on [insert date] per [identify applicable inspection program] and found to be in a condition for safe operation.”

-All other aircraft not described above

Review maintenance logs to determine if within the preceding 12 calendar months it has had a condition inspection performed in accordance with the scope and detail of part 43, appendix D, manufacturer or other FAA-approved programs, and was found to be in a condition for safe operation.

The inspections must be recorded in the aircraft maintenance All other aircraft not records showing the following, or a similarly worded, statement: “I certify described above. that this aircraft has been inspected on [insert date] in accordance with the

[insert either: scope and detail of part 43, appendix D; or manufacturer’s inspection procedures] and was found to be in a condition for safe operation.”

The entry will include the aircraft’s total time-in-service (cycles if appropriate), and the name, signature, certificate number, and type of certificate held by the person performing the inspection.

NOTE: Special Airworthiness Certificate under the “Experimental” category issued for the following: “Exhibition or Air Racing (21.191 (d)(e)” will be “Inspected” per the inspection program listed on the Operating Limitations.

3.2 Obtain copy of current inspection status of the aircraft, including the time since last inspection required by the inspection program under which the aircraft and its appliances are maintained.

Questions / Comments ?

• Open for any Questions / Comments or

Clarifications