1CASA 197/13 - Maintenance on warbird and historic and replica aircraft (WHR) - directions and licence condition

Instrument number CASA 197/13

I, john francis mcCORMICK, Director of Aviation Safety, on behalf of CASA, make this instrument under regulations 11.068 and 11.245 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 (CASR 1998).

[Signed John F. McCormick]

John F. McCormick
Director of Aviation Safety

24 September 2013

Maintenance on warbird and historic and replica aircraft (WHR) — directions and licence condition

1 Commencement, taking effect and duration

1.1This instrument commences immediately after the commencement of Civil Aviation Order 104.0 Amendment Instrument 2013 (No. 1).

1.2This instrument takes effect for a COA holder immediately after subsection 8 of CAO 104.0 (Certificates of approval — application, grant and conditions) (CAO 104.0) takes effect for the holder.

1.3This instrument takes effect for each of a COA holder’s employed authority or type rating holders, and WHR employees, immediately after the direction takes effect for the COA holder.

1.4This instrument takes effect for an independent engineer on and from 1 October 2013.

1.5 This instrument stops having effect at the end of 30 September 2016, as if it had been repealed by another instrument.

2 Definitions

In this instrument:

AEL means aircraft engineer licence.

authority or type rating holder means a person who holds 1 or more of the following:

(a) an airworthiness authority under paragraph 33B (1) (a) of the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 (CAR 1988) to carry out maintenance on a WHR;

Note The abbreviation WHR is used to denote a class of aircraft comprising Warbirds, Historic aircraft and Replica aircraft and is defined in this section.

(b) an airworthiness authority under paragraph 33B (1) (d) of CAR 1988 to conduct non-destructive testing (NDT) of aircraft and aircraft components;

(c) an aircraft welding authority under subregulation 33D (1) of CAR 1988;

(d) an authorisation under subregulation 42ZC (6) of CAR 1988 to carry out maintenance for paragraph 42ZC (4) (e) of CAR 1988;

(e) a category B1 or B2 licence with a rating for a type rated aircraft type that is a WHR.

Note Type rated aircraft type is defined in Part 3 of the Dictionary in CASR 1998.

CAR 1988 means the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988.

category B1 licence holder has the same meaning as in subregulation 66.010 (1) of CASR 1998.