7Maintenance releases for class B aircraft

7 Maintenance releases for class B aircraft

7.1For the purposes of subregulation 43 (1) of CAR, CASA directs that the maintenance release for a class B aircraft is 1 of the following:

(a) a maintenance release in the form set out at Attachment 1 to Appendix 3;

(b) the CAA or CASA Maintenance Release Form DA741, but only until stocks of this form, acquired or printed in bulk before 22 December 2015, have been exhausted;

(c) an alternative form approved in writing by CASA.

7.2Subject to regulation 47 of CAR and paragraph 7.3, a maintenance release for a class B aircraft remains in force for whichever of the following periods ends first:

(a) a period not exceeding 1 year;

(b) the aircraft time-in-service that is identified by the certificate of registration holder in the aircraft’s log book statement as the period for which the maintenance release is to remain in force.

7.3Subparagraph 7.2 (b) does not apply to private class B aircraft being maintained to the CASA Maintenance Schedule.

7AA Maintenance releases to be completed in accordance with Appendix 3

7AA.1For subsections 6 and 7, a maintenance release completed in the form set out at Attachment 1 to Appendix 3 must comply with the requirements set out in Appendix 3.

7AA.2A form mentioned in paragraph 7.1 (b) must be completed in accordance with the requirements set out in Appendix 3 as if the form was a form mentioned in paragraph 7.1 (a).

Note The forms mentioned in paragraph 7.1 (b) are substantively identical to the form mentioned in paragraph 7.1 (a), with minor formatting differences.