Federal Aviation Administration, DOT

Section 121.369

oversight of all contracted covered
work.
(g) The policies, procedures, methods,
and instructions required by paragraphs (e) and (f) of this section must
be acceptable to the FAA and included
in the certificate holder-s maintenance
manual as required bySection 121.369(b)(10).
(h) Each certificate holder who contracts for maintenance, preventive
maintenance, or alterations must provide to its responsible Flight Standards
office, in a format acceptable to the
FAA, a list that includes the name and
physical (street) address, or addresses,
where the work is carried out for each
maintenance provider that performs
work for the certificate holder, and a
description of the type of maintenance,
preventive maintenance, or alteration
that is to be performed at each location. The list must be updated with
any changes, including additions or deletions, and the updated list provided
to the FAA in a format acceptable to
the FAA by the last day of each calendar month.
[Docket FAA-2011-1136, Amdt. 121-371, 80 FR
11546, Mar. 4, 2015, as amended by Docket
FAA-2018-0119, Amdt. 121-380, 83 FR 9173,
Mar. 5, 2018]

Section 121.369 Manual requirements.
(a) The certificate holder shall put in
its manual a chart or description of the
certificate holder-s organization required by Section 121.365 and a list of persons
with whom it has arranged for the performance of any of its required inspections, other maintenance, preventive
maintenance, or alterations, including
a general description of that work.
(b) The certificate holder-s manual
must contain the programs required by
Section 121.367 that must be followed in performing
maintenance,
preventive
maintenance, and alterations of that
certificate holder-s airplanes, including
airframes, aircraft engines, propellers,
appliances, emergency equipment, and
parts thereof, and must include at least
the following:
(1) The method of performing routine
and nonroutine maintenance (other
than required inspections), preventive
maintenance, and alterations.
(2) A designation of the items of
maintenance and alteration that must
be inspected (required inspections), in-

cluding at least those that could result
in a failure, malfunction, or defect endangering the safe operation of the aircraft, if not performed properly or if
improper parts or materials are used.
(3) The method of performing required inspections and a designation by
occupational title of personnel authorized to perform each required inspection.
(4) Procedures for the reinspection of
work performed pursuant to previous
required inspection findings (buy-back
procedures).
(5) Procedures, standards, and limits
necessary for required inspections and
acceptance or rejection of the items required to be inspected and for periodic
inspection and calibration of precision
tools, measuring devices, and test
equipment.
(6) Procedures to ensure that all required inspections are performed.
(7) Instructions to prevent any person who performs any item of work
from performing any required inspection of that work.
(8) Instructions and procedures to
prevent any decision of an inspector,
regarding any required inspection from
being countermanded by persons other
than supervisory personnel of the inspection unit, or a person at that level
of administrative control that has
overall responsibility for the management of both the required inspection
functions and the other maintenance,
preventive maintenance, and alterations functions.
(9) Procedures to ensure that required inspections, other maintenance,
preventive maintenance, and alterations that are not completed as a result of shift changes or similar work
interruptions are properly completed
before the aircraft is released to service.
(10) Policies, procedures, methods,
and instructions for the accomplishment of all maintenance, preventive
maintenance, and alterations carried
out by a maintenance provider. These
policies, procedures, methods, and instructions must be acceptable to the
FAA and provide for the maintenance,
preventive maintenance, and alterations to be performed in accordance

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