Airworthiness (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Airworthiness: An Introduction to Aircraft Certification 4
Table of Contents 6
Preface 8
Airworthiness, Second Edition 8
Acknowledgments 10
About the Author 12
Chapter one Flight Safety 14
Chapter two Airworthiness 16
Chapter three The ICAO and the Civil Aviation Authorities 18
3.1 The International Civil Aviation Organization 18
3.2 The Civil Aviation Authorities 26
3.3 The Joint Aviation Authorities 27
3.4 The European Aviation Safety Agency 31
3.5 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 39
3.6 FAA activities 40
3.7 FAA certification 42
3.8 “One world, one goal: aviation safety” 51
Chapter four Airworthiness Requirements 56
4.1 Requirements, regulations, and standards 56
4.2 JARs and FARs 56
4.3 LIST OF JARS AND FARS4 DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY RELATED TO AIRWORTHINESS CERTIFICATION 57
4.4 Advisory material 68
4.5 EASA regulations 68
4.6 General considerations on airworthiness standards 71
4.7 JAR/FAR 21 86
4.8 EASA Part 21 (First issue) 87
4.9 Structure of aircraft airworthiness standards 88
4.10 Aircraft airworthiness standard applicability 90
4.11 Airworthiness standards for unmanned aircraft 94
Chapter five Type Certification 110
5.1 Type certification of aircraft, engines, and propellers 110
5.2 Parts and Appliances Approval 127
5.3 The master minimum equipment list/minimum equipment list 133
5.4 Type certification of imported products 134
5.5 Transfer of a type certificate 139
5.6 Instructions for Continued Airworthiness 141
5.7 Repairs 144
Chapter six The Type-Certification Process 150
6.1 JAA joint certifications and national certifications 150
6.2 The EASA type-certification process 151
6.3 The FAA type-certification process 159
6.4 The CPI Guide 162
6.5 FAA Order 8110.4 C, Type-Certification 166
6.6 Construction of prototypes and test articles 172
Chapter seven Production of Products, Parts, and Appliances 176
7.1 The JAA/EASA production organization 176
7.2 Production under FAR 21 182
Chapter eight Certificates of Airworthiness 186
8.1 Introduction 186
8.2 General classification 187
8.3 JAR 21 (Amendment 5)1 certificates of Airworthiness 188
8.4 EASA Part 21 certificates of airworthiness 189
8.5 FAR 21 airworthiness certificates 196
8.6 Additional airworthiness requirements for operation 214
8.7 FAA operational standards (Additional airworthiness requirements) 219
8.8 JAA operational standards (Additional airworthiness requirements) 238
8.9 EASA operational standards (additional airworthiness requirements) 249
Appendix 8.4 EASA PART 21 Certificates of Airworthiness 250
Appendix 8.5 FAR 21 Airworthiness Certificates 251
Appendix 8.7 FAA operational standards (additional airworthiness requirements) 252
Appendix 8.8/8.9 JAA/EASA operational standards (additional airworthiness requirements) 254
Chapter nine Continued Airworthiness and Operation 256
9.1 Continued airworthiness 256
9.2 Airworthiness directives 290
9.3 Older aircraft 292
9.4 Extended operations 296
9.5 Safety assessment of foreign aircraft 309
9.6 Safety Management System 316
Appendix 9.1.2 EASA continued airworthiness/Maintenance 326
Appendix 9.1.5 FAA continued airworthiness/Maintenance 327
Appendix 9.1.7 FAA certification of air operators 331
Chapter ten From Airworthiness to "spaceworthiness"? 334
10.1 The new rules 335
Appendix 10.1 Index of 14 CFR Chapter III 344
List of Acronyms 346
Bibliography 352
Index 354