European Aviation Safety Agency Notice of Proposed Amendment 2018-13 Appendix I to AMC to Annex III (Part-66) Aircraft type ratings for Part-66 aircraft maintenance licences RMT.0541 (66.024) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) addresses a regulatory coordination issue related to aircraft type ratings. According to the AMC to Annex III (Part-66), type ratings should be endorsed on an aircraft maintenance licence (AML) in accordance with Appendix I to AMC to Part-66 ‘List of type ratings’. An NPA is issued regularly to amend this list, after assessing feedback received from the industry, and to add new aircraft types or to remove aircraft types whose type certificate (TC) has been revoked or surrendered. This NPA adds also the tables of the new Group as a consequence of the introduction of the ‘L’ licence subcategories by Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/1142. The main objective is to ensure a common standard throughout the Member States. Action area: Regular updates/review of rules Affected rules: AMC/GM to Annex III (Part-66) to Commission Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014 Affected stakeholders: Maintenance certifying staff; maintenance training organisations; maintenance organisations; competent authorities Driver: Efficiency/proportionality Rulemaking group: No Impact assessment: None Rulemaking Procedure: Standard 12.5.2009 5.12.2018 2019/Q2 TE.RPRO.00034-008 © European Aviation Safety Agency. All rights reserved. ISO 9001 certified. Proprietary document. Copies are not controlled. Confirm revision status through the EASA intranet/internet. Page 1 of 186 An agency of the European Union European Aviation Safety Agency NPA 2018-13 Table of contents Table of contents 1. About this NPA ..................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1. How this NPA was developed ................................................................................................................... 3 1.2. How to comment on this NPA ................................................................................................................... 3 1.3. The next steps ........................................................................................................................................... 3 2. In summary — why and what ............................................................................................................... 4 2.1. Why we need to change the rules — issue/rationale ............................................................................... 4 2.2. What we want to achieve — objectives ................................................................................................... 4 2.3. How we want to achieve it — overview of the proposals ........................................................................ 4 2.4. Details of the changes ............................................................................................................................... 5 3. Proposed amendments ....................................................................................................................... 54 3.1. Draft Appendix I to AMC to Annex III (Part-66) ...................................................................................... 54 4. Impact assessment (IA) ..................................................................................................................... 185 5. Proposed actions to support implementation.................................................................................... 185 6. References ....................................................................................................................................... 186 6.1. Affected regulations .............................................................................................................................. 186 6.2. Affected decisions ................................................................................................................................. 186 6.3. Other reference documents ................................................................................................................. 186 TE.RPRO.00034-008 © European Aviation Safety Agency. All rights reserved. ISO 9001 certified. Proprietary document. Copies are not controlled. Confirm revision status through the EASA intranet/internet. Page 2 of 186 An agency of the European Union European Aviation Safety Agency NPA 2018-13 1. About this NPA 1. About this NPA 1.1. How this NPA was developed The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) developed this NPA in line with Regulation (EU) 2018/11391 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Basic Regulation’) and the Rulemaking Procedure2. This rulemaking activity is included in the European Plan for Aviation Safety (EPAS)3 under rulemaking task RMT.0541 (66.024). The text of this NPA has been developed by EASA based on recommendations provided by the industry and type certificate lists produced by the EASA’s Certification Directorate. It is hereby submitted to all interested parties4 for consultation. 1.2. How to comment on this NPA Please submit your comments using the automated Comment-Response Tool (CRT) available at http://hub.easa.europa.eu/crt/5. The deadline for submission of comments is 5 March 2019. 1.3. The next steps Following the closing of the public commenting period, EASA will review all comments. Based on the comments received, EASA will develop a decision that amends Appendix I ‘Aircraft type ratings for Part-66 aircraft maintenance licences’ to the Annex ‘Acceptable Means of Compliance to Part-66’ to Decision 2017/016/RM of the Executive Director of the Agency of 1 June 20176. The comments received and the EASA responses to them will be reflected in a comment-response document (CRD). The CRD will be appended to the decision. 1 Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2018 on common rules in the field of civil aviation and establishing a European Union Aviation Safety Agency, and amending Regulations (EC) No 2111/2005, (EC) No 1008/2008, (EU) No 996/2010, (EU) No 376/2014 and Directives 2014/30/EU and 2014/53/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 552/2004 and (EC) No 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EEC) No 3922/91 (OJ L 212, 22.8.2018, p. 1) (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1535612134845&uri =CELEX:32018R1139). 2 EASA is bound to follow a structured rulemaking process as required by Article 115(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139. Such a process has been adopted by the EASA Management Board (MB) and is referred to as the ‘Rulemaking Procedure’. See MB Decision No 18-2015 of 15 December 2015 replacing Decision 01/2012 concerning the procedure to be applied by EASA for the issuing of opinions, certification specifications and guidance material (http://www.easa.europa.eu/the-agency/management-board/decisions/easa- mb-decision-18-2015-rulemaking-procedure). 3 http://easa.europa.eu/rulemaking/annual-programme-and-planning.php 4 In accordance with Article 115 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1139, and Articles 6(3) and 7 of the Rulemaking Procedure. 5 In case of technical problems, please contact the CRT webmaster ([email protected]). 6 Executive Director Decision 2017/016/R of 1 June 2017 amending the Appendix I to Acceptable Means of Compliance to Part-66 of Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014 — Aircraft type ratings for Part-66 aircraft maintenance licences (AMC/GM to Part-66 — Issue 2, Amendment 2) (https://www.easa.europa.eu/document-library/agency-decisions/ed-decision-2017016r). TE.RPRO.00034-008 © European Aviation Safety Agency. All rights reserved. ISO 9001 certified. Proprietary document. Copies are not controlled. Confirm revision status through the EASA intranet/internet. Page 3 of 186 An agency of the European Union European Aviation Safety Agency NPA 2018-13 2. In summary — why and what 2. In summary — why and what 2.1. Why we need to change the rules — issue/rationale The purpose of this NPA is to update Appendix I ‘Aircraft type ratings for Part-66 aircraft maintenance licences’ to the Annex ‘Acceptable Means of Compliance to Part-66’ to Decision 2017/016/RM of the Executive Director of the Agency of 1 June 2017. 2.2. What we want to achieve — objectives The overall objectives of the EASA system are defined in Article 1 of the Basic Regulation. The specific objective of this proposal is to compile a list of aircraft type ratings (aircraft/engine combinations) to promote a common standard throughout the Member States. This requires frequent amendments of Appendix I to keep it up to date. 2.3. How we want to achieve it — overview of the proposals This NPA introduces: — updates of the type rating lists due to the addition of new models (up to end of October 2018) or deletion of old models that review the current EASA Products type certificate/supplemental type certificate (TC/STC) lists; — a new table for Group 1 Gas Airships other than ELA2; — new tables for Group 4 aircraft; — corrections of type certificate holder/supplemental type certificate holder (TCH/STCH) names, models, commercial designations and type ratings according to the content of the related type certificate data sheet/supplemental type certificate data sheet (TCDS/STCDS); — changes in the content of ‘Notes’ (e.g. insertion of the operational suitability data (OSD) approval dates, STC references, ELA1/ELA2 info for aeroplanes and Group 4 aircraft);