AC 21-2E

Historical

Advisory circular · Export Airworthiness Approval Procedures

A newer version is currentThis is a historical version. AC 21-2L is the version in force, approved January 29, 2010.
Approved
May 18, 1981
Last reviewed
May 8, 2014
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AC 21-2 · 8 versions
Revision
E

Guidance, not mandatory unless a rule or AD requires it. DRS record last changed May 8, 2014.

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(3) A statement confirming that any amendments or new issues of the above manuals and catalogs will be forwarded to the Department of Civil Aviation as they are issued.

(4) A copy of the Type Certificate Data Sheet or Aircraft Specification unless this is already held by the Department of Civil Aviation.

(5) Three (3) identical copies of the Flight Manual for the aircraft, including a copy allocated to the specific aircraft.

3. Each Aircraft for which a Botswana Certificate of Airworthiness is to be requested.

a. A statement must be signed by a manufacturer's representative to the effect that all mandatory modifications have been embodied, that all Airworthiness Directives have been complied with, and that any special inspections required have been complied with.

b. An Export Certificate of Airworthiness, FAA Form 8130-4.

c. Two (2) copies of the Flight Manual including a copy allocated to the specific aircraft.

d. A statement confirming that all amendments to the Flight Manual(s) will be forwarded to the Department of Civil Aviation as they are issued.

e. Iwo (2) copies of the Weight and Balance information for the specific aircraft.

f. Two (2) copies of the Equipment List for the specific aircraft, marked to show the installed equipment.

g. An Emergency Locator Beacon must be installed in the aircraft. Such unit must be equipped with a voice transmission facility and be installed with a conrol switch operable from the pilot's seat to activate the unit when required in the manual mode. Full details for the operation of the unit are to be installed on a placard mounted adjacent to the access panel 19

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FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL - SPECIAL REQUIREMENIS

1. To be eligible for registration and airworthiness certification by the Government or Brazil, Class 1, il, and lil products will be processed in accordance with the instructions contained in paragraphs a., b., and c.

below.

a. The manufacturer or supplier must hold or obtain one or more of the following FAA approvals, unless otherwise approved by a Brazilian governmental agency, e.g., Brazilian Air Force, etc.:

(1) A current valid FAA production certificate for the product involved, as outlined in Federal Aviation Regulations Part 21.

(2) An FAA Approved Production Inspection System (FAA-APIS), as provided in Federal Aviation Regulations, Part 21, Subpart F.

(3) An FAA replacement and modification parts manufacturer approval (FAA-PMA) as provided in Federal Aviation Regulations Part 21, Subpart K.

in this case, parts, containers, and invoices will be evidence of the manufacturer's name, address, the part number registered trademark, when described in FAA approval letter, and the symbol "FAA-PMA."

(4) Technical Standard Order (TSO) letter of acceptance, or authorization issued by the FAA per Federal Aviation Regulations Part 37.

b. Reconditioned, used, or surplus parts, must be accompanied by a certifcation statement signed by an FAA certified repair station holding a currently valid certificate, or by a certified aircraft and powerplant mechanic, as provided for under FAR Parts 145 and 65, respectively. The return to service maintenance records required by Federal Aviation Regulations 43 shall accompany the parts.

NOTE: The provisions of the above paragraphs are not applicable to standard parts (such as nuts and bolts) conforming to established industry or Government specifications, e.g., Standard Aircraft Equipment (SAE), and Military Specifications (MIL Spec.).

c. In all instances, suppliers must certify on the face of their invoice that the product involved was manufactured under one or more of the above procedures; i.e., FAA PC No. _; FAA-APIS letter dated PMA letter dated ; 1S0 NO. _; SAE No. _: MIL Spec. _ • other Government or Industry Specifications 20

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DOMINION OF CANADA - SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (Revised February 7, 1979)

1. Aircraft and aeronautical products, to be eligible for export to Canada, must in addition to requirements prescribed in Part 2l of the United States Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR), comply with applicable special requirements prescribed below. It should be noted that the Canadian Department of Transport (DOT) will accept for certification in Canada only those aircraft which are eligible for U.S. certification as "standard" aircraft and have been manufactured in the United States under a Type Certificate currently issued in accordance with FAR 21.21. This excludes "restricted", "limited", and "experimental" aircraft, which will require a type validation inspection by Department of Transport in accordance with Part 1, Chapter 11, Section 2.10.2.4 of the Engineering and Inspection Manual. Persons wishing to export transport category aircraft to Canada

a. An export certificate of airworthiness will be required by the DOI for all Class I products exported from the U.S. to Canada, except for used U.S. manufactured aircraft imported under the Inspect, Test, Repair as Necessary (ITRAN) procedure (see Note following paragraph c). Class II and Class Ill products exported to Canada will be processed in accordance with the provisions contained in FAR Part 21, Subpart I.

b. An aircraft exported to Canada, except as indicated in paragraph c below, shall not have been flown for any purpose other than that required to accomplish the manufacturer's production flight test, flight tests for modifications, crew training flights for Canadian purchaser, and such time as may be involved in effecting delivery.

c. Used aircraft may be exported to Canada, provided that such aircraft comply with the export certification requirements in FAR Part 21, are certificated in the "standard classification", and are accompanied by records or logbooks applying to the aircraft and engine(s).

NOTE: Used aircraft exported from the United States without an Export Certificate of Airworthiness are eligible for a Canadian Certificate of Airworthiness when the ITRAN requirements of Part I, Chapter II, Section 2.9, of the Canadian Department of Transport Engineering and Inspection Manual have been complied with.

d. Ski and ski installations must be designed to meet the requirements of the DOT Engineering and Inspection Manual Part II, Chapter I, Sections

1.1.39 and 1.1.40.

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e. When the first aircraft of a type is exported to Canada, the exporter is required to provide the Canadian Department of Transport at no charge, registered in Canada is exported to Canada, seven copies of the new Manuals or appropriate amendments and Service Bulletins must be provided. In the case of transport category aircraft, the required mumber of copies of manuals may be negotiated with the Canadian Department of Transport when the aircraft are exported to Canada.

f. United States exporters of aircraft and aeronautical products manufactured in a country other than the United States should contact the Department of Transport for certification policies and procedures.

g. As a condition of Canadian acceptance of an FAA Export Certificate of Airworthiness issued on or after July 1, 1981, U.S. exporters of aircraft offices and nust be complied with before an FAA export approval can be issued, when applicable to the particular aircraft being exported.

2. Io facilitate the licensing of aircraft, the following docunentation should be torwarded to the Regional Administrator oi the Region in which the purchaser resides (address of the six Regional Offices of the Canadian Department of Iransport may be found in paragraph 4):

a. Export Certificate of Airworthiness;

b. Evidence of transfer of ownership to the Canadian purchaser from the last U.S. recorded owner, or the manufacturer in the case of a new aircraft; and,

c. The appropriate Canadian Regional Administrator should be informed by telegram or telex of the issuance of an Export Certificate of Airworthiness for an aircraft being exported via flyaway to Canada.

(1) The following is an example of the telegran referred to above:

Regional Administrator Canadian Air Transportation Administration Transport of Canada 739 West Hastings Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1A2

Export Certificate of Airworthiness E-covering

(Make and Model of Aircraft) the hepa in ent of an spher or an a creato, tan da, KLA a nodel, contact 22

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SERIAL NUMBER ASSIGNED

CANADIAN IDENTIFICATION MARKINGS PURCHASED BY BEING PREPARED.

(Canadian Purchaser)

JOHN DOE

FAA INSPECTOR or

JOHN DOE DMIR No. 6666 or

JOHN DOE

FAA DELEGATION OPTION MANUFACTURER (NAME OF COMPANY).

(ii) The responsibility for having the telegram forwarded and any expense involved lies with the exporter.

3. Flyaway aircraft exported to Canada:

a. Aircraft being exported to Canada via flyaway must display Canadian nationality and registration marks.

b. Registration marks will be issued by a Regional office on Application by the Canadian purchaser.

4. Listed below are the addresses (and the geographical boundaries) of the six Regional Offices of the Canadian Department of Transport:

a. Pacific Region Regional Administrator Canadian Air Transportation Administration Transport Canada 739 West Hastings Street Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6C 1A2 Note: (British Columbia, excluding the area North and east of a line ten miles west of the Alaska Highway) 23

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b. Western Region Regional Administrator Canadian Air Transportation Administration Transport Canada Federal Building 9820 - 107th Street Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5K 1G3 NOTE: (Alberta, the Northwest Territories west of the 110th meridian, Yukon Territory and that part of British Columbia north and east of a line ten miles west of the Alaska highway, including Deace Lake, British Columbia).

c. Central Region Regional Administrator Canadian Air Transportation Administration Transport Canada P. O. Box 8550 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3C OP6 NOTE: (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Western Ontario as far east as the 88th meridian and the Northwest Territories lying to the north, more particularly described as follows: That part of Canada bounded by the meridian of 110°W, the Canada - United States border between 110°W, and 88°W, the meridian of 88°W, the meridian of 88°W between the Canada - United States border and parallel of 60° North latitude between 88°W and 80°W and he meridian of 80° west, north of 60°N but not including Mansel Island).

d. Ontario Region Regional Administrator Canadian Air Transportation Administration Transport Canada 4900 Young Street Suite 300 Willowdale, Ontario, Canada M2N 6A5 NOTE: (Ontario east of the 88th meridian).

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e. QUEBEC REGION Regional Administrator Canadian Air Transportation Administration Transport Canada P. O. Box 5000 Montreal International Airport Dorval, Quebec, Canada H4Y 189 NOIE: (Quebec and those parts of the Northwest Territories to the Islands and Labrador). north and east of the Central Region, not including the Magdalen

f. Atlantic Region Regional Administrator Canadian Air Transportation Administration Transport Canada P. O. Box 42 Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada E1C 8K6 NOTE: (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, including Labrador, and the Magdalen Islands).

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REPUBLIC OF FRANCE - SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (Revised June 7, 1978)

1. INTRODUCTION.

Effective October 12, 1968, to be eligible for a French standard airworthiness certificate, an aircraft imported into France must be of a type which has been issued a French type certificate for import, except as provided in paragraph 2.a. (2) of these special requirements. In addition, U.S. manufactured aircraft must meet the export rules in Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part 21, Subpart L. The requirements for issuance of French type certificates are contained in Conditions de Navigabilite des eronefs CivileArrete of September 1967,' (for convenience, referred to nereinafter as the "CNAC") and in French Circular No. 5403 DIA/M, S.G.A.C.

dated November 13, 1968. Other French documents and circulars also apply, as referred to in the text that follows. Copies of French documents and circulars can be obtained from the French Embassy or the Ministere des Transports Aeirens, Secretariat General a l'Aviation Civile, 93 Boulevard de Montparnasse, Paris 6e, France. Since a French type certificate for import is a prerequisite to issuance of a French airworthiness certificate, these special requirements include an outline of the general requirements for obtaining such type certificates.

b. Class II and III products will be exported in accordance with the provisions prescribed in Part 21, Subpart L of the United States federal Aviation Regulations. In particular, each class II and Ill product will be exported with an Airworthiness Approval Tag. Aeronautical authorities of the importing country (S.G.A.C.) shall promptly advise the aeronautical authorities of the exporting country of any additional requirements which the importing country finds necessary to insure that the products meet a level of safety equivalent to that which be effective for a similar product produced on the importing state. This will be confirmed by the importing agent on his orders.

20 REQUIREMENTS FOR ISSUANCE OF FRENCH AIRWORTHINESS CERTIFICATES AND PERMITS.

a. Standard Airworthiness Certificates.

(1) Except as provided in paragraph 2.a.(2), a U.S. Export Certificate of Airworthiness, FAA Form 8130-4, may be exchanged against a French airworthiness certificate only if the following requirements have been met.

(a) The aircraft type must have a French type certificate for import.

(b) The requirements of Article 11B of the CNAC must be complied with.

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(2) If a French standard airworthiness certificate was issued prior to October 12, 1968, for at least one aircraft of a particular type, then aircraft of that type may continue to be issued French standard airworthiness certificates on the basis of equivalency with the U.S.

Export Certificate of Airworthiness, even though the particular model involved may not have been issued a French type certificate for import.

French airworthiness certificates are issued under these conditions subject to compliance with other requirements of the CNAC (reference CNAC Article 5, paragraph 2).

An aircraft having major changes which required approval under Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part 21, Section 21.97 and/or FAR Part 21, Subpart E, is not eligible to obtain a French airworthiness certificate under the provisions of paragraph 2.a.(2). even though an aircraft of the same model may have been issued a French airworthiness certificate prior to October 12, 1968. In order to obtain a french standard airworthiness certificate, the applicant must comply with the procedures outlined under paragraph 2.a. (1). A French type certificate for import or an extension of a type certificate for import will be issued each time that the FAA issues a new type certificate or an SIC for a model based on a model previously imported.

b. Special Airworthiness Certificates. A French special airworthiness certificate may be issued to an aircraft of a model for which application has been made for a French type certificate for import, in order to facilitate its use under the conditions spelled out in Article 5, paragraph 2B of the CNAC, provided that the Secretariat General of Aviation Civil (S.G.A.C.) is familiar with the model. In addition, the procedure required for issuance of special airworthiness certificates will be applied in the case of aircraft in the restricted category.

c. sermit. A permit may be issued by the S.G.A.C. to an aircraft which has provisional French registration markings only to permit the ferrying and tests necessary for aircraft type certification. Normally, the S.G.A.C. will not authorize any private utilization and the permit may, basically, be renewed only for a total period of time not to exceed one year (reference CNAC Article 13 and 19, and Article 5, paragraph 3).

3. REQUIREMENTS FOR ISSUANCE OF FRENCH TYPE CERTIFICATES FOR IMPORT FOR U.S.-MANUFACTURED AIRCRAFT.

a. Applicant.

(1) The applicant for a French type certificate for import must be the person responsible for maintaining the level of airworthiness for the aircraft. Generally such person would be the manufacturer who originally obtained, and who holds the U.S. type certificate. If the U.S.

type certificate has been transferred by the original holder, the new holder (applicant) must be capable of, and responsible for maintaining the level of airworthiness.

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(2) In exceptional cases, it is possible to accept an application for a French type certificate for import from a person who is not the U.S.

type certiticate holder, provided that the applicant furnishes proof that ne has been duly authorized to take over complete responsibility for the type certificate under the licensing provisions of Federal Aviation Regulations Part 21, Section 21.47.

b. Documents. The required documents are specified in Article ll of the CNAC and under paragraph 5 of these special requirements.

c. Special Conditions. A U.S. applicant for a French type certificate for import must show compliance with the applicable FARS, plus any special conditions imposed by the S.G.A.C. Three types of special conditions are outlined in paragraphs 3.c.(l), (2), and (3). The primary purpose of the special conditions is to quarantee an airworthiness level equivalent to

(1) Administrative Special Conditions.

(a) Language. The documents which the S.G.A.C. requires to be furnished may be in English except for the following, which must be provided in French:

1 The type certificate (T.C.), data sheet:

2 The flight manual, and 3 The proposed maintenance guide.

NOTE: The S.G.A.C. will verify the translations of these documents and must approve the T.C. data sheet and the flight manual.

(p) Document Format, Ine 1.C. data sheet, ilight manual, anc proposed maintenance quide must be prepared in accordance with the formats specified in the following:

single translation the french of the I.c. data sets a posed by the 2 Flight Manual. The flight manual in French, which must be carried in each aircraft imported into France, must be either a simple translation of the FAA-approved flight manual when one exists, or if a flight manual does not exist, a similar document must be established for the purpose of import into France and must contain the following sections:

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Appendix 2 g Emergency Operations d Performance (Limited to only the approved performance conforming to the requirements of the applicable airworthiness FAR part).

3 Proposed Maintenance Guide. It is recommended that the proposed maintenance guide correspond to the instructions of the GENERAL DEFINITION OF "ROUTINE MAINTENANCE" INSPECTION of the Bureau Veritas, copies of which are available from the French Embassy.

(c) Units of Measurement. Aircraft instruments must be graduated in terms of legal or accepted French units; however, where other units are used in accordance with strongly established aeronautical practice, and it failure to comply with this practice would reduce aircraft safety, then such units may be accepted and must be used in the manuals.

If illegal or unaccepted units are used, the manuals must contain conversion tables. The following chart outlines legal and acceptable units of measurement.

Legal Units Units Allowed in Aeronautics Measure Name Symbol Name Symbol Length Meter* Nautical Mile NM Area Square Meter* mz Volume Cubic Meter* m3 Liter* 1 Angles Degree* Mass Kilo* kg Time second, S minute hour n Frequency Hertz* (l cycle per second) Hz Speed Meter per second m/s Feet per minute it/m Kilometer per hour Knots Kts Acceleration Meter per second m/s2 square Temperature Kelvin degree K Centigrade work Joule* J Power Watt* W Pressure (bar) Pressure Millibar mb * With decimal multiples and submultipies.

Note: Electrical units: Ampere, Volt, Ohm -- International System 29

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(2) General Technical Special Conditions. These special conditions would be required as a result of differences between the French regulations and the United States Federal Aviation Regulations.

(3) Specific Technical Special Conditions. These conditions would pertain to any possible unusual characteristics in the design, construction, or operation of the aircraft under consideration.

4. HOW TO OBTAIN A FRENCH TYPE CERTIFICATE FOR IMPORT. In the following procedures, any of the required documents and data which would normally be approved by the FAA for issuance of U.S. Type Certificates must also be FAA approved for issuance of French Type Certificates for Import.

a. General.

(1) The French require that the application be submitted to the pertinent government agency. Insofar as the FAA is concerned, this means that the application must be submitted to the FAA regional office of the region in which the applicant is located, Attention: Chief, Engineering and Manufacturing Branch ((AED) in the Western Region), who will transmit the application to the S.G.A.C. (An example of a standard application form is reproduced under paragraph 6 of these special requirements.) A statement including the following information and signed by the Chief of the Engineering and Manufacturing Branch ((AED) in the Western Region) should be provided the S.G.A.C. with the application:

(a) The FAR upon which the issuance of the U.S. Type Certificate is based;

(b) If applicable, a copy of the complete text of each special condition imposed by the FAA in connection with issuance of the type certificate; and

(c) If applicable, a copy of the complete text of each exemption which may have been granted.

(2) The manufacturer should provide the S.G.A.C. with all of the officially requested documents (reference paragraph 5).

(3) Following compliance with preceding paragraphs 4.a.(1) and

4.a. (2), the S.G.A.C. will transmit to the FAA Washington Office (AFS-100) the special conditions as provided for under paragraph 3.c., with a copy to the appropriate FAA regional office and a copy to the applicant.

(4) The aircraft would be considered eligible for a French Type Certificate for Import when the FAA certifies to the S.G.A.C. that the aircraft type meets the French special conditions and the Federal Aviation Regulations upon which issuance of the U.S. Type Certificate is based.

This certification does not preclude special requests which the S.G.A.C.

might subsequently submit in order to make certain in-flight checks and/or certain technological inspections on its own.