Appendix G Appendix G. Part Specific Certification Plan (PartSCP) Note: This document is a template and an aid to help define content and format when drafting a PartSCP. All text in italics is instructional for editing or deletion as necessary. Retain all text not in italics in the PartSCP, but edit as necessary for each project.
Part Specific Certification Plan Between [Insert the Name of the Applicant/Company] and the [Insert the FAA Certification Office] Project Number (leave blank until number assigned) List of Revisions Revision Number Revision Description Approved by:
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Appendix G Table of Contents Section Title/Subject Page
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Scope
1.2 Project Description
1.3 Background
1.4 Component Description
2.0 Applicable Documents
3.0 Project Schedule
4.0 Certification Basis
5.0 Tests
6.0 Conformity Inspections
7.0 Communication and Coordination
8.0 Delegations
9.0 Signatures
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1.0 Introduction
1.1 Scope The purpose of this Part Specific Certification Plan (PartSCP) is to define and document the requirements and tasks required for FAA evaluation and PMA approval of replacement articles.
The [Insert the applicable FAA Certification Office] of the Federal Aviation Administration and the applicant will jointly manage and maintain this PartSCP.
1.2 Project Description This section should contain a brief description of the aircraft, engine, propeller, or TSO article requested for PMA approval including the article name, part number, and its installation eligibility by product make/model.
1.3 Background (include service history)
1.4 Component Description
1.5 Instructions for Continued Airworthiness Plan
2.0 Applicable Documents The following documents are required as article of this PartSCP to define the design of the article, establish its eligibility and to show compliance to the regulations:
Item Document/Drawing Revision Description 1 12121212 A ABC Article Drawing 2 IPC IR Illustrated Parts Catalog or other proof of installation eligibility
3.0 Project Schedule Milestones as Applicable . Proposed Completion Date Submittal of PartSCP First Article Conformity Test Plan submittal to FAA Test Plan approval Testing completed Test Report submittal to FAA DER approved 8110-3 reports/drawings Final data submittal for PMA completion Issuance of engineering design approval G-3
Appendix G Addition milestones as appropriate
4.0 Certification Basis The certification basis and compliance with the applicable regulations is required, if the substantiation is accomplished by test and computation..
5.0 Tests The applicant will propose any tests necessary to show compliance with the applicable regulations. These tests support the associated general or comparative analysis.
6.0 Conformity Inspections Please list any expected conformity inspections necessary for this project.
7.0 Communication and Coordination The focal points for official communication between the FAA and the applicant are as follows:
FAA Office Branch Project Manager [Insert Name and phone number]
[Insert Company Name] Project Manager [Insert Name and phone number]
This does not prevent team members from engaging or communicating with any other team
member, however team members must inform the project focal point. Both the FAA and the
applicant will provide to each other a listing of their project team members.
The project focal points will manage the project by conducting regularly scheduled status
briefings.
8.0 Delegation.
Both the FAA and the applicant agree to foster an environment where the designees, the FAA, and the applicant maintain open communications. The FAA supports using designees to the fullest extent possible to help in the successful completion of the project in the identified time frame.
The applicant will propose the use of any suitable designee in specific test plans for FAA concurrence of the test plan, and the designees will complete the task. It is important the applicant keep the designees and the FAA focal point informed of any potential shift in the project schedule.
9.0 Signatures:
The FAA and the applicant agree to the provisions of this PartSCP as indicated by the signature of their authorized representatives.
FAA Concurrence:
Date: _______ ___________________ Date: _______ Project Manager MIDO Manager [If applicable] Date: _________ Applicant Concurrence:
Date:
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Appendix H Appendix H. Definitions and Terms When following procedures in this order, the following definitions and terms apply:
1. Accredited Laboratory is a laboratory which prescribes to a set of national standards, follows at least one of the available industry defined accreditation processes and has a certificate as proof. These laboratories also employ qualified individuals with technical degrees in the fields of chemistry, engineering, or metallurgy.
2. Aircraft Certification Office (ACO) is the field branch of the FAA Aircraft Certification Service. The project ACO has geographic responsibility for finding the design complies with applicable airworthiness standards. It administers and secures compliance with agency regulations, programs, standards, and procedures governing the design approval of replacement and modification articles. Appendix F has a link to the FAA website that gives ACO locations, addresses and geographic areas of responsibilities.
3. Article means a material, part, component, process or appliance. Articles may include sealants, modified standard parts, brake assemblies etc.
4. Certificate Management ACO (CMACO) is the ACO that issues and has oversight over the original design approval for the product/appliance for which the PMA applicant’s article is eligible for installation.
5. Continued Operational Safety (COS) assures the integrity of a product throughout its service life. This involves problem prevention, service monitoring and corrective actions that feedback into a product’s design and production.
6. Critical part is an article identified as critical by the design approval holder during the product type validation process, or otherwise by the exporting authority. Typically, such components include articles for which a replacement time, inspection interval, or related procedure is specified in the Airworthiness Limitations section or certification maintenance requirements of the manufacturer’s maintenance manual or Instructions for Continued Airworthiness.
7. Design is all drawings and specifications that show the article’s configuration and all information on dimensions, tolerances, materials, processes, and procedures necessary to define all article characteristics. A master drawing list is the summary of these drawing and specifications. The design can also include the airworthiness limitations section of the ICA.
8. Eligibility relates to the type-certificated products that the PMA articles are approved for installation.
9. FAA-PMA Letter is the initial production approval document issued to the PMA applicant by the appropriate MIDO. This letter accompanies a PMA supplement. The supplement is the ACO’s record of design approval and the MIDO’s production authorization. Later MIDO transmittal letters that references the initial PMA letters may revise eligibilities or add new articles to PMA supplements.
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10. Instructions for Continued Airworthiness (ICA) documents directions and requirements to maintain the continued airworthiness of an aircraft, engine, or propeller.
11. Life-limited Part is an article with an established replacement time, inspection interval, or related procedure in the airworthiness limitations section as required by 14 CFR 21.50, 23.1529,
25.1529, 27.1529, 29.1529, 31.82, 33.4, and 35.4. NOTE: Early type certificate data sheets (TCDS) have mandatory replacements or inspections for some products. These products were certified before 14 CFR had the above airworthiness requirements. Also, a technical standard order (TSO) authorization may note or reference mandatory replacement or inspection for an affected article.
12. Make is the common name associated with the original design of the product
13. Manufacturer is a person (14 CFR Part 1) who causes production of a product or article.
PAHs or their suppliers are likely manufacturers.
14. Manufacturing Facility is the location of the approved quality system that produces the article.
15. Manufacturing Inspection District Office (MIDO) is the field branch of the FAA Aircraft Certification Service responsible for certificate management in the geographic area in which the PMA applicant’s principle manufacturing facility is located. In some areas, a manufacturing inspection satellite office (MISO) will perform these functions. Go to http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/locate_office/mido/ to find the location, addresses, and geographic areas of responsibility of the individual MIDO/MISO. The certificating MIDO is the MIDO that issued the initial production approval or has certificate management responsibility for producing the product/appliance on which the PMA applicant’s article is eligible for installation.
16. Model is the TCDS designation to classify a product of a particular style of design.
17. Modification article is new to the product and approved under a major or minor change to the type design. An STC is the most common source of modification articles.
18. Owner/Operator Produced Article requires participation in controlling an article’s design, manufacture, or quality. Significant participation in one or more of the following actions establishes an owner/operator as the manufacturer of an article:
• Fabricating or finishing the article, or performing a value-added article inspection.
• Developing the design or performance data to manufacture the article.
• Selecting materials to manufacture the article.
• Developing fabrication processes or assembly methods to manufacture the article.
• Developing quality control procedures to manufacture the article.
• Controlling or supervising the manufacture of the article.
19. A Part Specific Certification Plan (PartSCP) is an agreement between the ACO and applicant that defines and documents the requirements and tasks required for FAA evaluation and PMA approval of articles.
20. Product is an aircraft, aircraft engine, or propeller. See 14 CFR 21.1(b).
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21. Production Approval Holder (PAH) is the holder of a production certificate, approved production inspection system, PMA, or TSO authorization. This person controls the design and quality of a product or article.
22. Qualified Laboratory is a laboratory which does not hold an accreditation from a governing body. However, it does employ qualified individuals with technical degrees in the fields of chemistry, engineering, or metallurgy,
23. Quality System is an organizational structure with responsibilities, procedures, processes, and resources that implements a management function to determine and enforce quality principles. A quality system encompasses quality assurance and quality control.
24. Replacement article is a direct substitute for an article approved under a type certificate. It is a fit, form and functional replacement for an original article in a product’s type design.
25. Revision is a correction of typographical errors or an update of administrative data on existing PMA supplements.
26. Series is a grouping of similar product models identified on the applicable TCDS.
27. Source Control Drawing is a drawing in which specific production and/or process details, typically found in the “Notes”, are directly controlled by the PMA DAH and flow down to their suppliers. This control is typically accomplished via additional agreements outside the direct purview of the drawing.
28. Standard Parts conform to established industry-wide or government specifications. These specifications stipulate the design, manufacturing and uniform identification requirements. The specifications are readily available to any persons or organizations who want to manufacture these articles. Also standard parts may include those that solely meet uniform performance criteria if the Administrator finds complete compliance with industry-wide and government performance specifications. These specifications must include performance, test and acceptance criteria, and uniform identification requirements. The Administrator deemed discrete electrical and electronic components that conform to their applicable performance criteria as standard parts. See Volume 62 Federal Register 9923, March 5, 1997.
29. Supplier is any person as defined by 14 CFR Part 1, Definitions and Abbreviations, That furnishes products, articles, or services (at any tier in the supply chain) that are used or consumed in the manufacture of, or installed on aviation products of articles.
30. Technical Standard Order (TSO) Authorization is an FAA design and production authorization issued to a specific manufacturer of an article that we found to meet a specific TSO’s minimum performance standard. The Aircraft Engineering Division (AIR-100) is responsible for TSOs. The geographic ACO is responsible for issuing the TSO authorization to the applicant. The TSO authorization is not an installation approval. We approve the installation of the article as part of the type design of a type-certificated product or subsequently by STC.
31. Type Certificate Holder is an individual or company who has been issued a design approval by the FAA and meets the requirements of 14 CFR part 21.21.
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