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The Aviation Designee Association has been created to guide and represent FAA appointed maintenance, manufacturing and other interested entities and individuals through the complexities of the aviation designee environment and to provide assistance in navigating the...
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What is an Aviation Designee? The U.S. civil aviation regulatory body began authorizing private citizens to examine, test and inspect aircraft in 1927, essentially authorizing them to act as designees. Since then the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has expanded the program to include a host of designees and delegations. The types of...
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Strengthening the designee community with You… A growing membership reinforces a strong voice in Washington by enabling the ADA to maintain an important leadership roll as an industry advocate through lobbying the FAA and other agencies on important policy and regulatory issues. Become part of the team that will shape...
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In the market for a used aircraft? Word to the wise, after you peruse eBay (just kidding, but I know it happens), and are ready to make your down payment you may want to spend at least some time researching what you might be getting. Case in point; I recently was asked to export a Champ to Canada. The aircraft had spent its entire life here in the States, how much more simpler could it be? It was represented as a certain model but was...
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Daniel Webster College in Nashua, New Hampshire will be hosting the expo and this years events proves once again to be chocked full of speakers offering all sorts of topics. The key note speaker will feature Gisele M. Mohler, from FAA’s NextGen Office. The Aviation Designee Association will be represented by Susan Fournier, Managing Director. Susan will be discussing aircraft export and recurrent airworthiness certification. For more...
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Last year three separate perspective aircraft buyers, who were about to finalize their aircraft purchases, contacted me for quotes for standard airworthiness certification. All three aircraft were foreign manufactured and under a registry located abroad. This was all fine and good but before we talked cost I asked each of them a simple question. “Is the aircraft eligible for the certificate you’re requesting?” “Why sure” was each...
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The call comes in on a Friday; it’s a beautiful sunny summer day. You’re a Maintenance DAR and while the incessant ringing continues in the background you’re busy contemplating going to the beach to get a jump-start on your weekend. You make a split second decision to pick up the phone thinking it might be a friend with a quick question. Little did you know you were about to embark on a journey that would age you 5 years. The guy...
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by Chuck Reynolds As a follow on to Susan’s post dealing with Aircraft or Lawn Ornament, and Maintenance Record-keeping Requirements, I thought it important to relay a recurring scenario I was intimately familiar with over the years, which involved the purchase of an aircraft. Some of you might relate to this story since it still continues to happen time and time again to this very day. If you are thinking about buying an aircraft, the...
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