CAR-M

SUBPART-G
(CONTINUING AIRWORTHINESS MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION)
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M.A.701 Scope
•This Subpart establishes the requirements to be met by an
organisation to qualify for the issue or continuation of an
approval for the management of aircraft continuing
airworthiness.

M.A.702 Application
An application for issue or variation of a continuing
airworthiness management organisation approval shall be
made on a CA Form 2 (Appendix IX to this CAR).
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M.A.703 Extent of Approval
(a) The approval is indicated on a certificate included in Appendix VI
issued by DGCA.

(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), for air operator certified in

accordance with Schedule XI , the approval shall be part of the air
operator certificate/permit issued by DGCA, for the aircraft
operated.

(c) The scope of work deemed to constitute the approval shall be

specified in the continuing airworthiness management exposition
in accordance with point M.A.704.
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M.A.704 Continuing Airworthiness Management Exposition

•The continuing airworthiness management organisation shall provide a
continuing airworthiness management exposition containing a statement
signed by the accountable manager to confirm that the organisation will
work in accordance with this CAR and the exposition at all times

•The continuing airworthiness management exposition and its amendments

shall be approved by DGCA.

•Notwithstanding paragraph (b), minor amendments to the exposition may

be approved indirectly through an indirect approval procedure. Provided the
amendments are submitted to DGCA local office atleast 15 days before their
affectivity.

•The purpose of the CAME is to set forth the procedures, means and methods
of the CAMO Compliance with its contents will assure compliance with CAR
M requirements.
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M.A.704 Continuing Airworthiness Management Exposition

•A continuing airworthiness management exposition should
comprise:
Part 0 General organisation
Part 1 Continuing airworthiness procedures
Part 2 Quality system or organisational review (as applicable)
Part 3 Contracted maintenance (for operators) – management of
maintenance (liaison with maintenance organisations.
Part 4 Airworthiness review procedures (if applicable)
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M.A.704 Continuing Airworthiness Management Exposition

•The CAMO should specify in the exposition who is responsible for the
amendment of the document. Unless otherwise agreed by the DGCA,
the person responsible for the management of the quality system or
for the organisational review should be responsible for monitoring
and amending the CAME.

•The CAMO may use electronic data processing (EDP) for the
publication of the CAME.
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Exposition Layout for a CAMO holding a Maintenance Organisation
Approval
•Where continuing airworthiness management organisation is also
approved to another CAR, the exposition or manual required by the
other CAR may form the basis of the continuing airworthiness
management exposition in a combined document.

•‘This exposition defines the organisation and procedures upon which

the DGCA, continuing airworthiness management organisation
approval is based.

Whenever the accountable manager is changed, it is important to

ensure that the new accountable manager signs statement at the
earliest opportunity as part of the acceptance by the DGCA. Failure to
carry out this action invalidates the continuing airworthiness
management organisation approval or the air operator certificate.
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M.A.705 Facilities
The continuing airworthiness management organisation shall provide
suitable office accommodation at appropriate locations for the
personnel specified in M.A.706.

Office accommodation should be such that the incumbents, whether

they be continuing airworthiness management, planning, technical
records or quality staff, can carry out their designated tasks in a
manner that contributes to good standards.

In the smaller M.A. Subpart G organisations, DGCA may agree to

these tasks being conducted from one office subject to being satisfied
that there is sufficient space and that each task can be carried out
without undue disturbance. Office accommodation should also include
an adequate technical library and room for document consultation.
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M.A.706 Personnel Requirements
•The organisation shall appoint an accountable manager
•A person or group of persons shall be nominated
•organisation shall have sufficient appropriately qualified staff for the
expected work.
•For organisations extending airworthiness review certificates, the
organisation shall nominate persons authorised to do so.
•persons shall be able to show relevant knowledge, background and
appropriate experience related to aircraft continuing airworthiness.
•The qualification of all personnel involved in continuing
airworthiness management shall be recorded.
•organisation shall establish and control the competence of
personnel involved in the continuing airworthiness management,
airworthiness review and/or quality audits in accordance with a
procedure and to a standard agreed by DGCA.
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•Nominated person or group of persons should have:
a) practical experience and expertise in the application of aviation safety
standards and safe operating practices;
b) a comprehensive knowledge of:
 relevant parts of operational requirements ;
 the AOC holder's Operations Specifications when applicable;
 the relevant parts of the AOC holder's Operations Manual when applicable;
C) knowledge of quality systems;
D) five years relevant work experience of which at least two years should be
from the aeronautical industry in an appropriate position;
E) a relevant engineering degree or an aircraft maintenance technician
qualification with additional education acceptable to DGCA
F) The above recommendation may be replaced by 5 years of experience
additional to those already recommended above. These 5 years should
cover an appropriate combination of experience in tasks related to aircraft
maintenance and/or continuing airworthiness management (engineering)
and/or surveillance of such tasks.
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•With regard to the accountable manager,
a) it is normally intended to mean the chief executive officer of the
maintenance organisation approved under M.A. Subpart F, who
by virtue of position has overall (including in particular financial)
responsibility for running the organisation.
b) The accountable manager may be the accountable manager for
more than one organisation and is not required to be necessarily
knowledgeable on technical matters.
c) When the accountable manager is not the chief executive officer,
DGCA will need to be assured that such an accountable manager
has direct access to chief executive officer and has a sufficiency of
maintenance funding allocation.
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M.A.707 Airworthiness Review Staff
 2. For aircraft not used by air operator certified in accordance
with schedule XI of aircraft rule 1937 , of 2730 kg MTOM and below,
& balloons, these staff shall have acquired:
(a) at least three years experience in continuing airworthiness, and;
(b) an appropriate licence in compliance with CAR 66 or an
aeronautical degree or equivalent, and;
(c) formal aeronautical maintenance training, and;
(d) a position within the approved organisation with appropriate
responsibilities.
(e) Notwithstanding points “a” to “d”, the requirement may be
replaced by four years of experience in continuing airworthiness
additional to those already required
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M.A.707 Airworthiness Review Staff
•To be approved to carry out airworthiness reviews, an approved CAMO
shall have appropriate airworthiness review staff to issue ARC or
recommendations referred to in Subpart I.
1. For aircraft used by air operator certified in accordance with
schedule XI of aircraft rule 1937 , and aircraft above 2730 kg MTOM,
except balloons, these staff shall have acquired:
(a) at least five years experience in continuing airworthiness, and;
(b) an appropriate licence in compliance with CAR 66 or an aeronautical
degree or equivalent, and;
(c) formal aeronautical maintenance training, and;
(d) a position within the approved organisation with appropriate
responsibilities.
(e) Notwithstanding points “a” to “d”, the requirement may be replaced
by five years of experience in continuing airworthiness additional to
those already required
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M.A.707 Airworthiness Review Staff
•Airworthiness review staff nominated by the approved continuing
airworthiness management organisation can only be issued an
authorisation by the approved continuing airworthiness management
organisation when formally accepted by DGCA after satisfactory
completion of an airworthiness review under supervision of the DGCA
or under the supervision of the organisation's airworthiness review
staff in accordance with a procedure approved by the DGCA.

•The organisation shall maintain a record of all airworthiness review

staff, which shall include details of any appropriate qualification held
together with a summary of relevant continuing airworthiness
management experience and training and a copy of the authorisation.
This record shall be retained until two years after the airworthiness
review staff have left the organisation.
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M.A.707 Airworthiness Review Staff
•The formal acceptance by the DGCA of the airworthiness review
staff is granted through the corresponding CA Form 4.

•If the airworthiness review is performed under the supervision of

existing airworthiness review staff, evidence should be provided to
the DGCA together with CA Form 4. If satisfied, the DGCA will issue
the formal acceptance through CA Form 4.
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M.A.708 Continuing Airworthiness Management
•All continuing airworthiness management shall be carried out according to
the prescriptions of M.A Subpart C.
•For every aircraft managed, the approved continuing airworthiness
management organisation shall:
1) develop and control a maintenance programme
2) Present the aircraft maintenance programme and its amendments to DGCA
for approval
3) manage the approval of modification and repairs,
4) ensure that all maintenance is carried out in accordance with the approved
maintenance programme
5) ensure that all applicable AD`s and OD`s with a continuing airworthiness
impact, are applied,
6) ensure that all defects discovered during scheduled maintenance or
reported are corrected
7) ensure that the aircraft is taken to an appropriately approved maintenance
organisation
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M.A.709 Documentation
•The approved continuing airworthiness management organisation
shall hold and use applicable current maintenance data in
accordance with point M.A.401 for the performance of continuing
airworthiness tasks referred to in point M.A.708. This data may be
provided by the owner or the operator, subject to an appropriate
contract being established with such an owner or operator. In such
case, the continuing airworthiness management organisation only
needs to keep such data for the duration of the contract, except
when required by point M.A.714.
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M.A.709 Documentation
•For aircraft not involved in commercial air transport, the approved
continuing airworthiness management organisation may develop
“baseline” and/or “generic” maintenance programmes in order to
allow for the initial approval and/or the extension of the scope of an
approval without having the contracts referred to in Appendix I to
CAR-M.
• These “baseline” and/or “generic” maintenance programmes
however do not preclude the need to establish an adequate Aircraft
Maintenance Programme in compliance with point M.A.302 in due
time before exercising the privileges referred to in point M.A.711.’
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M.A.709 Documentation
•“Base line” maintenance programme: it is a maintenance
programme developed for a particular aircraft type following, where
applicable, the maintenance review board (MRB) report, the type
certificate holder’s maintenance planning document (MPD), the
relevant chapters of the maintenance manual or any other
maintenance data containing information on scheduling.

•“Generic” maintenance programme: it is a maintenance

programme developed to cover a group of similar types of aircraft.
These programmes should be based on the same type of instructions
as the baseline maintenance programme. Examples of “generic”
maintenance programmes could be Cessna 100 Series (covering
Cessna 150, 172, 177, etc.).
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•To satisfy the requirement for the airworthiness review of an aircraft,
reffered to in point M.A. 901, a full documented review of the aircraft
records shall be carried out by the approved continuing airworthiness
management organisation in order to be satisfied that:
1) airframe, engine and propeller flying hours and associated flight
cycles have been properly recorded, and;
2) the flight manual is applicable to the aircraft configuration and
reflects the latest revision status, and;
3) all the maintenance due on the aircraft according to the approved
maintenance programme has been carried out,
4) all known defects have been corrected or, when applicable, carried
forward in a controlled manner, and;
5) all applicable airworthiness directives have been applied and
properly registered, and;
6) all modifications and repairs applied to the aircraft have been
registered and are approved according to AAC No- 2 of 2013 , and;
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•all service life limited components installed on the aircraft are
properly identified, registered and have not exceeded their approved
service life limit, and;
•all maintenance has been released in accordance with this CAR ,
and;
•the current mass and balance statement reflects the configuration
of the aircraft and is valid, and;
•the aircraft complies with the latest revision of its type design
approved/ accepted by DGCA, and .
•if required, the aircraft holds a noise certificate corresponding to the
current configuration of the aircraft.
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•The airworthiness review staff of the approved continuing
airworthiness management organisation's shall carry out a physical
survey of the aircraft. For this survey, airworthiness review staff not
appropriately qualified to CAR 66 shall be assisted by such qualified
personnel.
•Through the physical inspection of the aircraft, the airworthiness
review staff shall ensure that:
1. all required markings and placards are properly installed, and;
2. the aircraft complies with its approved flight manual, and;
3. the aircraft configuration complies with the approved
documentation, and;
4. no evident defect can be found that has not been addressed
according to M.A.403, and;
5. no inconsistencies can be found between the aircraft and the
paragraph (a) documented review of records.
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•By derogation to M.A.901(a) the airworthiness review can be
anticipated by a maximum period of 90 days without loss of
continuity of the airworthiness review pattern, to allow the physical
review to take place during a maintenance check.
•The Airworthiness Review Certificate (CA Form 15b - Appendix-III) or
a recommendation for the issue of the airworthiness revie certificate
( CA Form 15a) can only be issued.
1. by airworthiness review staff appropriately authorised in
accordance with point M.A.707 on behalf of the approved
continuing airworthiness management organisation or by
certifying staff in cases provided for in point M.A.901(g), and
2. when satisfied that the airworthiness review has been completely
carried out and that there is no non-compliance which is known
to endanger flight safety.
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•A copy of any airworthiness review certificate issued or extended for an

aircraft shall be sent to DGCA within 10 days along with requisite fees.
•Airworthiness review tasks shall not be sub-contracted.
•For Category 1 light aircraft not involved in commercial operations for
which the aircraft maintenance programme has been established in
accordance with M.A.302(h), the aircraft maintenance programme shall be
reviewed in conjunction with the airworthiness review. This review shall
be accomplished by the person who performed the airworthiness review.

•Should the outcome of the airworthiness review be inconclusive, or

should the review, show discrepancies on the aircraft linked to deficiencies
in the content of the maintenance programme, the DGCA shall be
informed by the organisation as soon as practicable but in any case within
72 hours from the moment the organisation identifies the condition to
which the review relates. The airworthiness review certificate shall not be
issued until all findings have been closed.
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M.A.711 Privileges of the Organization

•A continuing airworthiness management organisation approved in
accordance with Section A, Subpart G of CAR-M may:
1. manage the continuing airworthiness of aircraft, except those involved in
air operator certified in accordance with schedule XI of aircraft rule 1937,
as listed on the approval certificate;
2. manage the continuing airworthiness of aircraft used by air operator
certified in accordance with schedule XI of aircraft rule 1937 when listed
both on its approval certificate and on its Air Operator Certificate (AOC);
3. arrange to carry out limited continuing airworthiness tasks with any
contracted organisation, working under its quality system, as listed on
the approval certificate;
4. extend, under the conditions of point M.A.901(f), an airworthiness
review certificate that has been issued by DGCA or by another continuing
airworthiness management organisation approved in accordance with
Section A, Subpart G of CAR-M;
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M.A.711 Privileges of the Organization

•A continuing airworthiness management organisation approved in
accordance with Section A, Subpart G of CAR-M may:
1. manage the continuing airworthiness of aircraft, except those involved in
air operator certified in accordance with schedule XI of aircraft rule 1937,
as listed on the approval certificate;
2. manage the continuing airworthiness of aircraft used by air operator
certified in accordance with schedule XI of aircraft rule 1937 when listed
both on its approval certificate and on its Air Operator Certificate (AOC);
3. arrange to carry out limited continuing airworthiness tasks with any
contracted organisation, working under its quality system, as listed on
the approval certificate;
4. extend, under the conditions of point M.A.901(f), an airworthiness
review certificate that has been issued by DGCA or by another continuing
airworthiness management organisation approved in accordance with
Section A, Subpart G of CAR-M;
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M.A.712 Quality System

•To ensure that the approved continuing airworthiness management
organisation continues to meet the requirements of this Subpart, it shall
establish a quality system and designate a quality manager to monitor
compliance with, and the adequacy of, procedures required to ensure
airworthy aircraft. Compliance monitoring shall include a feedback system
to the accountable manager to ensure corrective action as necessary.
•The quality system shall monitor activities carried out under Section -A.
Subpart G of this CAR . It shall at least include the following functions:
1. monitoring that all activities carried out under Section A Subpart G of
this CAR are being performed in accordance with the approved procedures,
and;
2. monitoring that all contracted maintenance is carried out in accordance
with the contract, and;
3. monitoring the continued compliance with the requirements of this CAR
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M.A.712 Quality System

•The records of these activities shall be stored for at least two years.

•Where the approved continuing airworthiness management

organisation is approved in accordance with another CAR, the quality
system may be combined with that required by the other CAR.

•For air operator certified in accordance with schedule XI of aircraft rule

1937, the M.A.Subpart G quality system, shall be an integrated part of
the operator's quality system.
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M.A.712 Quality System

•In the case of a small organisation not managing the continuing
airworthiness of aircraft used in air operator certified in accordance with
schedule XI of aircraft rule 1937, the quality system may be replaced by
regular organisational reviews subject to the approval of DGCA, except
when the organisation issues airworthiness review certificates for
aircraft above 2730 kg MTOM other than balloons.

•In the case where there is no quality system, the organization shall not
contract continuing airworthiness management tasks to other parties.
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M.A.713 Changes to the Approved CAMO

•In order to enable DGCA to determine continued compliance with this
CAR, the approved continuing airworthiness management organisation
shall notify it of any proposal to carry out any of the following changes,
before such changes take place:
1. the name of the organisation.
2. the location of the organisation.
3. additional locations of the organisation.
4. the accountable manager.
5. any of the persons specified in M.A.706(c).
6. the facilities, procedures, work scope and staff that could affect the
approval.
• In the case of proposed changes in personnel not known to the
management beforehand, these changes shall be notified at the
earliest opportunity.
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M.A.714 Record Keeping

a) The continuing airworthiness management organisation shall record
all details of work carried out. The records required by M.A.305 and if
applicable M.A.306 shall be retained.
b) If the Continuing Airworthiness Management organization has the
privilege referred to in point M.A.711(b), it shall retain copy of each
airworthiness review certificate and recommendation issued or, as
applicable, extended, together with all supporting documents.
c) The continuing airworthiness management organisation shall retain a
copy of all records listed in paragraph (b) until two years after the
aircraft has been permanently withdrawn from service.
d) The records shall be stored in a manner that ensures protection from
damage, alteration and theft.
e) All computer hardware used to ensure backup shall be stored in a
different location from that containing the working data in an
environment that ensures they remain in good condition.
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M.A.714 Record Keeping

f) Where continuing airworthiness management of an aircraft is
transferred to another organisation or person, all retained records
shall be transferred to the said organisation or person. The time
periods prescribed for the retention of records shall continue to
apply to the said organisation or person.
g) Where a continuing airworthiness management organisation
terminates its operation, all retained records shall be transferred to
the owner of the aircraft.
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M.A.714 Record Keeping

• Keeping continuing airworthiness records in a form acceptable to
DGCA means in paper form or on a computer database or a
combination of both methods. Records stored in microfilm or optical
disc form are also acceptable. The record should remain legible
throughout the required retention period.
• Paper systems should use robust material which can withstand
normal handling and filing.
• Computer systems should have at least one backup system which
should be updated within 24 hours of any new entry. Each terminal
is required to contain programme safeguards against the ability of
unauthorised personnel to alter the database.
• Microfilming or optical storage of continuing airworthiness records
may be carried out at any time. The records should be as legible as
the original record and remain so for the required retention period.
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M.A.715 Continued Validity of Approval

a) An approval shall be issued for a maximum period of five years.
b) It shall remain valid subject to:
1. the organisation remaining in compliance with this CAR , in
accordance with the provisions related to the handling of findings as
specified under M.B.705 ( Refer APM Chapter 3A ) and;
2. DGCA being granted access to the organisation to determine
continued compliance with this CAR, and; t
3. The approval not being surrendered or revoked.
a) Upon surrender or revocation, the approval certificate shall be
returned to DGCA.
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M.A.716 Findings
(a) A level 1 finding is any significant non-compliance with CAR-M
requirements which lowers the safety standard and hazards
seriously the flight safety.
(b) A level 2 finding is any non-compliance with the CAR-M
requirements which could lower the safety standard and possibly
hazard the flight safety.
(c) After receipt of notification of findings according to M.B.705, the
holder of the continuing airworthiness management organisation
approval shall define a corrective action plan and demonstrate
corrective action to the satisfaction of DGCA within a period of 7
days and 30 days for level 1 & level 2 findings respectively, including
appropriate corrective action to prevent recurrence of the finding
and its root cause.
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