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Maintenance data are maintenance information and instructions required to maintain an aircraft or product in an airworthy condition. The maintenance data are used to ensure the continuing airworthiness of aircraft throughout its life and are required to be kept up to date and accessible to maintenance personnel performing maintenance and inspection on aircraft. Maintenance data are sometimes referred to as technical data or airworthiness data either approved or accepted. This paper examined the regulatory requirement for maintenance data and types of maintenance data. The paper looked at the various categories of maintenance data and their sources with emphases on the organization issuing or publishing such maintenance data and importance. The availability of maintenance data to persons or organization performing maintenance, the need for the currency of maintenance data, the permissibility of making changes to maintenance data, and the use of work cards and/or worksheets were examin...

The installer of an aircraft part must determine its eligibility and traceability to approved source before installing the part on the aircraft. For aircraft parts to be eligible and traceable, they must be from a source approved or acceptable to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Aircraft parts must be produced in accordance with a production system and data approved or found acceptable by the regulatory authority of the State of Design. Owner and operator of aircraft are also required to keep current status of aircraft life-limited parts and these records must be transferred to the new owner or operator after the sale. This paper reviews traceability of aircraft parts with special emphasis on approved and acceptable parts, the traceability documentation required, and back-to-birth traceability. EASA Part M.A.501(a) states that “No component may be fitted unless it is in a satisfactory condition, has been appropriately released to service on an EASA Form 1 or equivalen...