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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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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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The FAA revised part 21, Certification Procedures for Products and Parts recently and we are going to speak specifically to Subpart L; Export Airworthiness Approvals. After the initial Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) and the public comment period closed, the final rule that emerged was considerably different. Of course many of us grumbled because lets face it, we don’t particularly like change because it usually means we have to...
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To pick up where we left off, we’ll discuss the aircraft maintenance record keeping requirements. While this particular regulation pertains to the average general aviation owner, it also may apply to part 135 on-demand charters operating aircraft excluding a pilots seat, of nine seats or less. Aircraft maintenance records are sometimes referred to as aircraft log books and a host of recordkeeping formats are in use today. The FAA does not...
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Dare Country Airport, Monteo, NC December 18, 2011. The Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation operates a Douglas C-54 Skymaster, known as the “Spirit of Freedom,” as a flying museum educating the young and old alike of the events of the post WWII Berlin Airlift. Tim Chopp, President of the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation recently flew the aircraft on a candy drop with Gail Halvorsen, now 92 years old, the original Candy Bomber...
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