Certification Changes

摘要

Beginning about the time this magazine lands in your mailbox, the FAA's long-awaited revision to FAR Part 23-the regulations setting forth small aircraft certification rules-will go into effect. Manufacturers and user groups are enthusiastic about the coming changes, which they say promise to reform and modernize the agency's approval process for airframes, engines and equipment like avionics. The new rules go into effect August 30, 2017. In preparation, the FAA's Aircraft Certification Service (ACS) in July began working under a reorganization plan it says will "implement a new, functionally-aligned organizational structure to execute the certification strategy. Realignment is the first visible phase of the transformation process."