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Annex 8 — Airworthiness of Aircraft
Annex: SARPs and associated material
The international airworthiness framework. It helps explain why aircraft design, certification, maintenance and continuing oversight form a connected system.
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Inspected local edition: 12th, July 2018.
Passages read: Part II, Chapter 3, §§3.2.1 and 3.2.3, printed II-3-1, PDF 43.
Issue and continuing validity of an aircraft certificate of airworthiness.
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The people behind continuing airworthiness →
Aircraft design approval, the aircraft’s certificate, maintenance work and an operator’s responsibilities answer different questions. Learning these boundaries is more useful at the start of a career than memorizing job titles. Engineering, records, planning and operational teams contribute different evidence to the same overall objective.