49 U.S.C. § 44717 — Aging aircraft
submitted 32 years ago by Pub. L. 103-272 to r/title-49-TRANSPORTATION · 449 words · no verdicts yet
The FAA must ensure the continuing airworthiness of aging aircraft through inspections, records, maintenance demonstrations, training, and safety programs. It also addresses foreign-air-carrier aircraft.
(a) The Administrator must issue regulations ensuring aging aircraft remain airworthy. They must at least require inspections and record reviews needed to decide whether each air carrier aircraft is safe and properly maintained; require the carrier to show that age-sensitive parts and components were maintained adequately and on time for the highest safety; require the aircraft and required records to be made available; and establish inspection procedures.
(b) (1) These inspections and reviews must occur during each heavy-maintenance check after the aircraft’s 14th year in service. (2) The inspections must follow section 44701(a)(2)(B) and (C).
(c) The Administrator must establish programs to verify compliance with approved maintenance programs; train and increase the participation of FAA inspectors and engineers in auditing inspections for corrosion and metal fatigue; and ensure carriers show commitment and technical competence to keep their aircraft airworthy.
(d) The Administrator must encourage foreign governments and international organizations to develop inspection standards ensuring aging foreign-carrier aircraft flying to or from the United States remain airworthy and giving their passengers the same safety level this section gives air-carrier passengers. By September 30, 1994, the Administrator had to report to Congress on these efforts.
The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall prescribe regulations that ensure the continuing airworthiness of aging aircraft. The regulations prescribed under subsection (a) of this section—
at least shall require the Administrator to make inspections, and review the maintenance and other records, of each aircraft an air carrier uses to provide air transportation that the Administrator decides may be necessary to enable the Administrator to decide whether the aircraft is in safe condition and maintained properly for operation in air transportation;
at least shall require an air carrier to demonstrate to the Administrator, as part of the inspection, that maintenance of the aircraft’s age-sensitive parts and components has been adequate and timely enough to ensure the highest degree of safety;
shall require the air carrier to make available to the Administrator the aircraft and any records about the aircraft that the Administrator requires to carry out a review; and
shall establish procedures to be followed in carrying out an inspection.
Inspections and reviews required under subsection (a)(1) of this section shall be carried out as part of each heavy maintenance check of the aircraft conducted after the 14th year in which the aircraft has been in service.
Inspections under subsection (a)(1) of this section shall be carried out as provided under section 44701(a)(2)(B) and (C) of this title.
The Administrator shall establish—
a program to verify that air carriers are maintaining their aircraft according to maintenance programs approved by the Administrator;
a program—
to provide inspectors and engineers of the Administration with training necessary to conduct auditing inspections of aircraft operated by air carriers for corrosion and metal fatigue; and
to enhance participation of those inspectors and engineers in those inspections; and
a program to ensure that air carriers demonstrate to the Administrator their commitment and technical competence to ensure the airworthiness of aircraft that the carriers operate.
The Administrator shall take all possible steps to encourage governments of foreign countries and relevant international organizations to develop standards and requirements for inspections and reviews that—
will ensure the continuing airworthiness of aging aircraft used by foreign air carriers to provide foreign air transportation to and from the United States; and
will provide passengers of those foreign air carriers with the same level of safety that will be provided passengers of air carriers by carrying out this section.
Not later than September 30, 1994, the Administrator shall report to Congress on carrying out this subsection.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1199.)
- 1994Enacted · Pub. L. 103-272 · 108 Stat. 1199
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