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Where are aircraft maintenance records?
Most maintenance performed on an aircraft is recorded in the aircraft logbooks. As an aircraft owner, it is important to ensure that your aircraft’s logbooks are complete and up to date at all times.
What is aircraft maintenance record?
Maintenance Record Entry The date of the maintenance performed and time in service of the aircraft, engine or propeller, as applicable. The signature and the license number of the person approving the aircraft, engine, propeller, and appliance for return to service.
Are the aircraft and engine maintenance logbooks required to be carried onboard an aircraft?
The FAA requires us to keep maintenance records for our aircraft. In fact, there are more than a dozen separate FARs that define what records must be kept, for how long, and by whom.
What documents must be onboard an aircraft at all times?
The letters stand for the documents that must be carried aboard an airplane. They are an airworthiness certificate, registration certificate, operating limitations, and weight and balance information.
Who is responsible for making the entry in the maintenance records?
Section 91.405 requires each owner or operator to ensure that maintenance personnel make appropriate entries in the maintenance records to indicate that the aircraft has been approved for return to service.
Where can I get a PDF of a Boeing Maintenance manual?
You can also Google around and get PDFs of Boeing maintenance documents but these would be from unofficial/unauthorized sources (at least one Boeing maintenance manual made it onto Wikileaks).
Can you get Boeing Maintenance documents from an unauthorized source?
As Boeing likely holds a copyright on their maintenance documents obtaining them from an unofficial/unauthorized source would be an infringement on that copyright. More importantly you can’t guarantee documents from an unofficial source are correct, current, and unmodified.
Who is responsible for maintenance manuals for airlines?
Having worked with airlines using Boeing maintenance data, the position pre-B787 was that the maintenance manuals were owned by the airlines but that Boeing were responsible for the original content.
Why is Boeing trying to change the B787?
Boeing seem to be trying to change that for the B787, possibly in an attempt to get all B787 customers to use their Maintenance Performance Toolbox authoring/consultation tool instead of being able to use third party solutions or even Airbus’s Maintenance documentation solution