Report of Inspections Required by Airworthiness Directives, Part 39

The Administrator uses Airworthiness Directives (AD)s to notify aircraft owners and operators that an unsafe condition exists. ADs prescribe the conditions, limitations, or both, under which the product may continue to be operated. Aircraft owners and operators are mandated to report information concerning their aircraft on occasion of an AD. The Aircraft Certification Office (ACO) initiating the AD analyzes the reports and determines if the AD’s corrective action will eliminate the unsafe condition. If not, the ACO issues a new AD to correct the unsafe condition. To date, we have no other method for collecting this information. If we do not collect it by issuing an AD, we must conduct a directed safety investigation. This is a burden on both the FAA and the owner/operator. It is anticipated that the information collected will be used to support publicly disseminated information. FAA ACO will retain control over the information and safeguard it from improper access, modification, and destruction, consistent with FAA standards for confidentiality, privacy, and electronic information. See response to Question 10 of this Supporting Statement for more information on confidentiality and privacy. The information collection is designed to yield data that meet all applicable information quality guidelines.

The latest form for Report of Inspections Required by Airworthiness Directives, Part 39 expires 2022-11-30 and can be found here.