Article 5
All repair stations must submit an application for certification and rating to the CAA (included in Attachment 3) and must include 2 copies of the following documents:
1) A repair station manual
2) A quality control manual
3) Safety Management Manual.
4) A list by type, make, or model, as appropriate, of each article for which the application is made.
5) An organizational chart depicting the hierarchy and administrative work of a repair station
6) The roster that includes name, job title of the Accountable Manager, Managerial Personnel and Supervisors.
7) A description of the housing and facilities, including the physical address.
8) A list containing the individuals or entities name, address and contracted Maintenance Function when given any maintenance function is contracted or delegated, by contract, to third parties, including natural individuals, legal entities or other repair organizations.
9) A training program for approval by the CAA.
The equipment, personnel, technical data, and housing and facilities required for the certificate and rating, or for an additional rating must be in place for inspection at the time of certification or rating approval by the CAA. An applicant may meet the equipment requirement of this paragraph if the applicant has a contract acceptable to the CAA with another person to make the equipment available to the applicant at the time of certification and at any time that it is necessary when the relevant work is being performed by the repair station.
In addition to meeting the other applicable requirements for a repair station certificate and rating, an applicant for a repair station certificate and rating located outside the Republic of China must meet the following requirements:
1) The applicant must show that the repair station certificate and/or rating is necessary for maintaining Republic of China -registered aircraft and articles for use on Republic of China -registered aircraft.
2) The applicant must show the local repair station certificate.
3) The applicant shall certify in writing that all employees for the repair station, its contractors, or subcontractors performing a job function concerning the transport of dangerous goods (hazardous material) are trained as outlined in the most current edition of the International Civil Aviation Organization Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air.
Article 6
No person may operate as a certificated repair station without, or in violation of, a repair station certificate, ratings, or operations specifications issued under this regulation. The certificate and operations specifications issued to a certificated repair station must be available on the premises for inspection by the public and the CAA.
Duration and renewal of certificate: A certificate or rating issued to a repair station located in the Republic of China is effective from the date of issue until the last day of the 36th month after the date of issue unless the repair station surrenders the certificate or the CAA suspends or revokes it. A certificate or rating issued to a repair station located outside the Republic of China is effective from the date of issue until the last day of the 12th month after the date of issue unless the repair station surrenders the certificate or the CAA suspends or revokes it.
A certificated repair station applies for a renewal of its repair station certificate must submit its request for renewal no later than 60 days before the repair station's current certificate expires. If a request for renewal is not made within this period, the repair station must follow the application procedures in Article 5.
The holder of an expired, surrendered, suspended, or revoked certificate must return it to the CAA within 30 days.
The holder of damaged or missing certificate must apply renewal with reason or return the original certificate to the CAA.
Article 8
The following ratings are issued under this regulation:
1) Airframe ratings.
a) Class 1: Composite construction of small aircraft, with maximum take-off weight is less than 5,700 kilograms or 12,500 pounds.
b) Class 2: Composite construction of large aircraft, with maximum take-off weight is more than 5,700 kilograms or 12,500 pounds.
c) Class 3: All-metal construction of small aircraft, with maximum take-off weight is less than 5,700 kilograms or 12,500 pounds.
d) Class 4: All-metal construction of large aircraft, with maximum take-off weight is more than 5,700 kilograms or 12,500 pounds.
2) Powerplant ratings.
a) Class 1: Reciprocating engines of 400 horsepower or less.
b) Class 2: Reciprocating engines of more than 400 horsepower.
c) Class 3: Turbine engines.
3) Propeller ratings.
a) Class 1: Fixed-pitch and ground-adjustable propellers of wood, metal, or composite construction.
b) Class 2: Other propellers, by make.
4) Radio ratings.
a) Class 1: Communication equipment.
Radio transmitting and/or receiving equipment used in an aircraft to send or receive communications in flight, regardless of carrier frequency or type of modulation used.。This equipment includes auxiliary and related aircraft interphone systems, amplifier systems, electrical or electronic intercrew signaling devices, and similar equipment.。This equipment does not include equipment used for navigating or aiding navigation of aircraft, equipment used for measuring altitude or terrain clearance, other measuring equipment operated on radio or radar principles, or mechanical, electrical, gyroscopic, or electronic instruments that are a part of communications radio equipment.
b) Class 2: Navigational equipment.
A radio system used in an aircraft for en route or approach navigation. This does not include equipment operated on radar or pulsed radio frequency principles, or equipment used for measuring altitude or terrain clearance.
c) Class 3: Radar equipment.
An aircraft electronic system operated on radar or pulsed radio frequency principles.
5) Instrument ratings.
a) Class 1: Mechanical.
A diaphragm, bourdon tube, aneroid, optical, or mechanically driven centrifugal instrument used on aircraft or to operate aircraft, including tachometers, airspeed indicators, pressure gauges drift sights, magnetic compasses, altimeters, or similar mechanical instruments.
b) Class 2: Electrical.
Self-synchronous and electrical-indicating instruments and systems, including remote indicating instruments, cylinder head temperature gauges, or similar electrical instruments.
c) Class 3: Gyroscopic.
An instrument or system using gyroscopic principles and motivated by air pressure or electrical energy, including automatic pilot control units, turn and bank indicators, directional gyros, and their parts, and flux gate and gyrosyn compasses.
d) Class 4: Electronic.
An instrument whose operation depends on electron tubes, transistors, or similar devices, including capacitance type quantity gauges, system amplifiers, and engine analyzers.
6) Accessory ratings.
a) Class 1: A mechanical accessory that depends on friction, hydraulics, mechanical linkage, or pneumatic pressure for operation, including aircraft wheel brakes, mechanically driven pumps, carburetors, aircraft wheel assemblies, shock absorber struts and hydraulic servo units.
b) Class 2: An electrical accessory. that depends on electrical energy for its operation, and a generator, including starters, voltage regulators, electric motors, electrically driven fuel pumps magnetos, or similar electrical accessories.
c) Class 3: An electronic accessory that depends on the use of an electron tube transistor, or similar device, including supercharger, temperature, air conditioning controls, or similar electronic controls.
7) Specialized services ratings
a) Nondestructive inspection, testing, and processing.
b) Emergency equipment.
c) Aircraft accessory fabric work.
d) The work approved by CAA.
For specialized services rating, the operations specifications of the repair station must contain the specification used to perform the specialized service. The specification may be —
1) A civil or military specification currently used by industry and approved by the CAA, or
2) A specification developed by the applicant and approved by the CAA.
Article 9
The CAA may issue a limited rating to a certificated repair station that maintains or alters only a particular type of airframe, powerplant, propeller, radio, instrument, or accessory, or part thereof, or performs only specialized maintenance requiring equipment and skills not ordinarily performed under other repair station ratings. Such a rating may be limited to a specific model aircraft, engine, or constituent part, or to any number of parts made by a particular manufacturer. The CAA issues limited ratings for—
1) Airframes of a particular make and model.
2) Engines of a particular make and model.
3) Propellers of a particular make and model.
4) Instruments of a particular make and model.
5) Radio equipment of a particular make and model.
6) Accessories of a particular make and model.
7) Landing gear components.
8) Floats, by make.
9) Rotor blades, by make and model.
10) Aircraft fabric work.
11) Any other specificity as approved by the CAA.