What is an ARC?

Airworthiness Review Certificate.

It’s the document we have EASA approval to issue when we’ve inspected an aircraft and pronounced it airworthy.

Prior to September 2008, aircraft were issued a Certificate of Airworthiness by the CAA which was renewed on an annual basis. Since then, each aircraft now has a non-expiring Certificate of Airworthiness which remains in force by the issue of an ARC (Airworthiness Review Certificate) raised and certified by an approved EASA Part M company, annually.

Effectively this means that we take responsibility for the status of the aircraft, without reference to the CAA.

What are EASA 145 Part M, and Sub-Parts G and I?

EASA 145 covers the scope of maintenance work for which we are approved.

• Part M approval lists the aircraft we are allowed to maintain.
• Sub-Part G recognises our ability to look after aircraft technical records, even for customers whose maintenance is currently carried out elsewhere.
• Sub-Part I is our capability for ‘Continuous Airworthiness Management’ which authorises Aviation Maintenance to issue ARCs.