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1- Assume you are the Director of Maintenance for a Part 135 operator. You need trained, experienced technicians to maintain and inspect your fleet. You have several Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) technicians and certificated repairmen on your staff. It is the end of the overnight maintenance shift, and a 100-hour inspection has just been completed on a King Air. You have just arrived in the morning and are looking for someone to sign an airworthiness release in accordance with 14 CFR Part 135.443.
a. Can Patricia, a certified repairman who did part of the work on the 100-hour inspection, sign the airworthiness release? (Read through Parts 135.443 and 65.105, and the BCAM text Chapter 3)
b. Or, do you need to have Joe, an A&P tech who also worked on the 100-hour inspection, sign the airworthiness release? (See 135.443 and 65.81)
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b.
2- Assume that you are the Director of Maintenance of a Part 135 air taxi company that has its own in-house maintenance organization which can do some, but not all, maintenance, inspection, and repair functions on its fleet of Beech KIng Airs and Cessna Citation. There are other Part 145 repair stations (otherwise known as MROs-Maintenance and Repair Organizations) available for you to use for some of your company's work. They generally specialize in "heavy maintenance and repair". As the DOM, would you have the following work done "in-house" or by an outside MRO, and why (use your imagination)
a. Nose-gear collapse repair, King Air (aircraft can be ferried)
b. 100-hour inspection including oil change
c. 3500-hour hot section inspection of PT-6 engine
d. replacement of a starter-generator on a Citation Jet
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b.
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3- Compare and contrast the maintenance requirements required for a Fractional Ownership Program (see 14 CFR Part 91K; 91.1001 and others) and a Part 135 air taxi/commercial operator (see CFR Part 119.71 and others), covering such areas as:
a- Is a Director of Maintenance required for a Part 91K program?
b- Is a Director of Maintenance required for a Part 135 operation (119.71)?
c- Is a General Maintenance Manual (GMM) required for both Part 91 Subpart K; and for Part 135 Subpart J?
d- How about a maintenance technician employee training program? required for Part 91K? (91.1433) or Part 135 (135.433) , or both?
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4- Part 135.411 gives some options for different maintenance program for "9 passenger or less" aircraft. One of these is the option for an operator to develop its own Approved Aircraft Inspection Program under 135.419. Contrast these options with the aircraft maintenance program for Fractional Ownership Program aircraft, required under 91.1109, 91.1411, and 91.1413. What are those options?
5- Assume that your Part 135 company, which operates Beech King Airs, needs to find a new Director of Maintenance (DoM). Ms. Allen has the following recent experience within the past 6 years:
-2 years of experience maintaining single-engine Cessna 208 turboprops for a Part 135 cargo operator.
-2 years of experience repairing aircraft at a Part 145 repair station, but no experience in approving aircraft for return to service at that employer.
a-Does the applicant Ms. Allen meet Part 119.71 requirements to be a Part 135 Director of Maintenance?
b-If not, is there a way in the regulations that you can make an appeal to the FAA for a review of her qualifications?
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answers
Question 1
a) a. A certified repairman will sign the airworthiness release as provided in part 65.
Question 2
a. nose gear collapse repair, King Air
• Can be done in, in house repair this is because King Air ‘in house’ repair has been approved to repair landing gears by FAA
b. 100 hour inspection including oil change
• Can be done in, in house repair this because it is done more frequently.
c. 3500 hour hotspot inspection of PT6 engine
• Can be done in an outside MRO this is because a complete replacement may be required.
d. Replacement of starter generator on a citation jet
• Can be done in, in house repair this because a starter generator can fail at any given time.
Question 3
a. Is a Director of Maintenance required for a Part 91K program?
• Yes, as instructed by FAA program
b. Is a Director of Maintenance required for a Part 135 operation (11.71)?
• Yes
c. Is General Maintenance Manual (GMM) required for part 91 subpart K; and for part 135 subpart J?
• No.
• For part 91 subpart K requires program operating manual
d. How about a maintenance technician employee training program? Required for part 91K? (91.1433) or part 135 (135.433) or both?
• Both require a training program.
Question 4
Options given in part 135.411
• Seats of an aircraft that carry passengers excluding any pilot seats can be maintained under maintenance program 135.415.
• An operator who is not otherwise required may elect to maintain its aircraft under paragraph (a) of part 135.11
Fractional ownership program is a maintenance under airworthiness and a director of maintenance or equivalent position should be employed to work under CAMP
Question 5
a. Ms. Allen cannot fit to be a director of maintenance. She didn’t met part 119.71 requirements to be part 135
b. A certificate holder may request a deviation for her if the manager of air transport division find her experience comparable and can perform the functions in accordance with the requirements of this chapter and the procedures outlined in the certificate holder’s manual.