The Air Navigation Order 2005

Certificate of maintenance review U.K.

14.—(1) An aircraft registered in the United Kingdom—

(a) in respect of which a certificate of airworthiness is in force shall not fly unless the aircraft (including in particular its engines), together with its equipment and radio station, is maintained in accordance with a maintenance schedule approved by the CAA in relation to that aircraft;

(b) which is a public transport or an aerial work aircraft shall not fly unless there is in force a certificate (in this Order referred to as a “certificate of maintenance review”) issued in respect of the aircraft in accordance with the provisions of this article and the certificate certifies the date on which the maintenance review was carried out and the date when the next review is due.

(2) A maintenance schedule approved under paragraph (1)(a) in relation to a public transport or aerial work aircraft shall specify the occasions on which a review must be carried out for the purpose of issuing a certificate of maintenance review.

(3) A certificate of maintenance review may be issued for the purposes of this article only by—

(a) the holder of an aircraft maintenance engineer's licence—

(i) granted under this Order, being a licence which entitles him to issue that certificate;

(ii) granted under the law of a country other than the United Kingdom and rendered valid under this Order in accordance with the privileges endorsed on the licence; or

(iii) granted under the law of any such country as may be prescribed in accordance with the privileges endorsed on the licence and subject to any conditions which may be prescribed;

(b) a person whom the CAA has authorised to issue a certificate of maintenance review in a particular case, and in accordance with that authority;

(c) a person approved by the CAA as being competent to issue such a certificate, and in accordance with that approval; or

(d) the holder of an aircraft maintenance licence granted by the CAA under Part 66, in accordance with the privileges endorsed on the licence.

(4) In approving a maintenance schedule, the CAA may direct that certificates of maintenance review relating to that schedule, or to any part thereof specified in its direction, may be issued only by the holder of such a licence as is so specified.

(5) A person referred to in paragraph (3) shall not issue a certificate of maintenance review unless he has first verified that—

(a) maintenance has been carried out on the aircraft in accordance with the maintenance schedule approved for that aircraft;

(b) inspections and modifications required by the CAA as provided in article 10 have been completed as certified in the relevant certificate of release to service issued under this Order or under Part 145;

(c) defects entered in the technical log or approved record of the aircraft in accordance with article 15 have been rectified or the rectification thereof has been deferred in accordance with procedures approved by the CAA; and

(d) certificates of release to service have been issued:

(i) under this Order or in accordance with paragraph 21A. 163(d) of Part 21 in respect of an aircraft falling within article 16(1); or

(ii) under Part 145 in respect of an aircraft required to be maintained in accordance with Part 145;

and for this purpose the operator of the aircraft shall make available to that person such information as is necessary.

(6) A certificate of maintenance review shall be issued in duplicate.

(7) One copy of the most recently issued certificate of maintenance review shall be carried in the aircraft when article 86 so requires, and the other shall be kept by the operator elsewhere than in the aircraft.

(8) Subject to article 91, each certificate of maintenance review shall be preserved by the operator of the aircraft for a period of at least 2 years after it has been issued.