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§ 121.369
is carried out under the supervision
and control of the certificate holder.
(e) Each certificate holder who con-
tracts for maintenance, preventive
maintenance, or alterations must de-
velop and implement policies, proce-
dures, methods, and instructions for
the accomplishment of all contracted
maintenance, preventive maintenance,
and alterations. These policies, proce-
dures, methods, and instructions must
provide for the maintenance, preven-
tive maintenance, and alterations to be
performed in accordance with the cer-
tificate holder’s maintenance program
and maintenance manual.
(f) Each certificate holder who con-
tracts for maintenance, preventive
maintenance, or alterations must en-
sure that its system for the continuing
analysis and surveillance of the main-
tenance, preventive maintenance, and
alterations carried out by the mainte-
nance provider, as required by
§ 121.373(a), contains procedures for
oversight of all contracted covered
work.
(g) The policies, procedures, methods,
and instructions required by para-
graphs (e) and (f) of this section must
be acceptable to the FAA and included
in the certificate holder’s maintenance
manual as required by§ 121.369(b)(10).
(h) Each certificate holder who con-
tracts for maintenance, preventive
maintenance, or alterations must pro-
vide 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 loca-
tion. The list must be updated with
any changes, including additions or de-
letions, and the updated list provided
to the FAA in a format acceptable to
the FAA by the last day of each cal-
endar 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]
§ 121.369 Manual requirements.
(a) The certificate holder shall put in
its manual a chart or description of the
certificate holder’s organization re-
quired by § 121.365 and a list of persons
with whom it has arranged for the per-
formance of any of its required inspec-
tions, 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
§ 121.367 that must be followed in per-
forming 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 en-
dangering the safe operation of the air-
craft, if not performed properly or if
improper parts or materials are used.
(3) The method of performing re-
quired inspections and a designation by
occupational title of personnel author-
ized to perform each required inspec-
tion.
(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 re-
quired to be inspected and for periodic
inspection and calibration of precision
tools, measuring devices, and test
equipment.
(6) Procedures to ensure that all re-
quired inspections are performed.
(7) Instructions to prevent any per-
son who performs any item of work
from performing any required inspec-
tion of that work.
(8) Instructions and procedures to
prevent any decision of an inspector,
regarding any required inspection from
being countermanded by persons other
