14 CFR 145 - Certification

Federal Aviation Administration, DOT

§ 145.51

repair station personnel follow the regulations and serving as the primary
contact with the FAA.
(b) Article means an aircraft, airframe, aircraft engine, propeller, appliance, or component part.
(c) Directly in charge means having
the responsibility for the work of a certificated repair station that performs
maintenance, preventive maintenance,
alterations, or other functions affecting aircraft airworthiness. A person directly in charge does not need to physically observe and direct each worker
constantly but must be available for
consultation on matters requiring instruction or decision from higher authority.
(d) Line maintenance means—
(1) Any unscheduled maintenance resulting from unforeseen events; or
(2) Scheduled checks that contain
servicing and/or inspections that do
not require specialized training, equipment, or facilities.
§ 145.5 Certificate and operations specifications requirements.
(a) No person may operate as a certificated repair station without, or in
violation of, a repair station certificate, ratings, or operations specifications issued under this part.
(b) The certificate and operations
specifications issued to a certificated
repair station must be available on the
premises for inspection by the public
and the FAA.

Subpart B—Certification
SOURCE: Docket No. FAA–1999–5836, 66 FR
41117, Aug. 6, 2001, unless otherwise noted.

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§ 145.51

Application for certificate.

(a) An application for a repair station
certificate and rating must be made in
a format acceptable to the FAA and
must include the following:
(1) A repair station manual acceptable to the FAA as required by § 145.207;
(2) A quality control manual acceptable to the FAA as required by
§ 145.211(c);
(3) A list by type, make, or model, as
appropriate, of each article for which
the application is made;

(4) An organizational chart of the repair station and the names and titles of
managing and supervisory personnel;
(5) A description of the housing and
facilities, including the physical address, in accordance with § 145.103;
(6) A list of the maintenance functions, for approval by the FAA, to be
performed for the repair station under
contract by another person in accordance with § 145.217; and
(7) A training program for approval
by the FAA in accordance with
§ 145.163.
(b) The equipment, personnel, technical data, and housing and facilities
required for the certificate and rating,
or for an additional rating must be in
place for inspection at the time of certification or rating approval by the
FAA. An applicant may meet the
equipment requirement of this paragraph if the applicant has a contract
acceptable to the FAA with another
person to make the equipment available to the applicant at the time of certification and at any time that it is
necessary when the relevant work is
being performed by the repair station.
(c) In addition to meeting the other
applicable requirements for a repair
station certificate and rating, an applicant for a repair station certificate and
rating located outside the United
States must meet the following requirements:
(1) The applicant must show that the
repair station certificate and/or rating
is necessary for maintaining or altering the following:
(i) U.S.-registered aircraft and articles for use on U.S.-registered aircraft,
or
(ii) Foreign-registered aircraft operated under the provisions of part 121 or
part 135, and articles for use on these
aircraft.
(2) The applicant must show that the
fee prescribed by the FAA has been
paid.
(d) An application for an additional
rating, amended repair station certificate, or renewal of a repair station certificate must be made in a format acceptable to the FAA. The application
must include only that information
necessary to substantiate the change
or renewal of the certificate.

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