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§ 145.160
(1) Thoroughly familiar with the ap-
plicable regulations in this chapter and
with the inspection methods, tech-
niques, practices, aids, equipment, and
tools used to determine the airworthi-
ness of the article on which mainte-
nance, preventive maintenance, or al-
terations are being performed; and
(2) Proficient in using the various
types of inspection equipment and vis-
ual inspection aids appropriate for the
article being inspected.
(b) A certificated repair station must
ensure its inspectors understand, read,
and write English.
[Doc. No. FAA–1999–5836, 66 FR 41117, Aug. 6,
2001, as amended by Amdt. 145–30, 79 FR
46985, Aug. 12, 2014]
§ 145.157 Personnel authorized to ap-
prove an article for return to serv-
ice.
(a) A certificated repair station lo-
cated inside the United States must en-
sure each person authorized to approve
an article for return to service under
the repair station certificate and oper-
ations specifications is appropriately
certificated as a mechanic or repair-
man under part 65.
(b) A certificated repair station lo-
cated outside the United States must
ensure each person authorized to ap-
prove an article for return to service
under the repair station certificate and
operations specifications is—
(1) Trained in or has 18 months prac-
tical experience with the methods,
techniques, practices, aids, equipment,
and tools used to perform the mainte-
nance, preventive maintenance, or al-
terations; and
(2) Thoroughly familiar with the ap-
plicable regulations in this chapter and
proficient in the use of the various in-
spection methods, techniques, prac-
tices, aids, equipment, and tools appro-
priate for the work being performed
and approved for return to service.
(c) A certificated repair station must
ensure each person authorized to ap-
prove an article for return to service
understands, reads, and writes English.
[Doc. No. FAA–1999–5836, 66 FR 41117, Aug. 6,
2001, as amended by Amdt. 145–30, 79 FR
46985, Aug. 12, 2014]
§ 145.159 Recommendation of a person
for certification as a repairman.
A certificated repair station that
chooses to use repairmen to meet the
applicable personnel requirements of
this part must certify in a format ac-
ceptable to the FAA that each person
recommended for certification as a re-
pairman—
(a) Is employed by the repair station,
and
(b) Meets the eligibility requirements
of § 65.101.
§ 145.160 Employment of former FAA
employees.
(a) Except as specified in paragraph
(c) of this section, no holder of a repair
station certificate may knowingly em-
ploy or make a contractual arrange-
ment which permits an individual to
act as an agent or representative of the
certificate holder in any matter before
the Federal Aviation Administration if
the individual, in the preceding 2
years—
(1) Served as, or was directly respon-
sible for the oversight of, a Flight
Standards Service aviation safety in-
spector; and
(2) Had direct responsibility to in-
spect, or oversee the inspection of, the
operations of the certificate holder.
(b) For the purpose of this section, an
individual shall be considered to be
acting as an agent or representative of
a certificate holder in a matter before
the agency if the individual makes any
written or oral communication on be-
half of the certificate holder to the
agency (or any of its officers or em-
ployees) in connection with a par-
ticular matter, whether or not involv-
ing a specific party and without regard
to whether the individual has partici-
pated in, or had responsibility for, the
particular matter while serving as a
Flight Standards Service aviation safe-
ty inspector.
(c) The provisions of this section do
not prohibit a holder of a repair station
certificate from knowingly employing
or making a contractual arrangement
which permits an individual to act as
an agent or representative of the cer-
tificate holder in any matter before the
Federal Aviation Administration if the
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§ 145.161
individual was employed by the certifi-
cate holder before October 21, 2011.
[Doc. No. FAA–2008–1154, 76 FR 52237, Aug. 22,
2011]
§ 145.161 Records of management, su-
pervisory, and inspection per-
sonnel.
(a) A certificated repair station must
maintain and make available in a for-
mat acceptable to the FAA the fol-
lowing:
(1) A roster of management and su-
pervisory personnel that includes the
names of the repair station officials
who are responsible for its manage-
ment and the names of its supervisors
who oversee maintenance functions.
(2) A roster with the names of all in-
spection personnel.
(3) A roster of personnel authorized
to sign a maintenance release for ap-
proving a maintained or altered article
for return to service.
(4) A summary of the employment of
each individual whose name is on the
personnel rosters required by para-
graphs (a)(1) through (a)(3) of this sec-
tion. The summary must contain
enough information on each individual
listed on the roster to show compliance
with the experience requirements of
this part and must include the fol-
lowing:
(i) Present title,
(ii) Total years of experience and the
type of maintenance work performed,
(iii) Past relevant employment with
names of employers and periods of em-
ployment,
(iv) Scope of present employment,
and
(v) The type of mechanic or repair-
man certificate held and the ratings on
that certificate, if applicable.
(b) Within 5 business days of the
change, the rosters required by this
section must reflect changes caused by
termination, reassignment, change in
duties or scope of assignment, or addi-
tion of personnel.
§ 145.163 Training requirements.
(a) A certificated repair station must
have and use an employee training pro-
gram approved by the FAA that con-
sists of initial and recurrent training.
An applicant for a repair station cer-
tificate must submit a training pro-
gram for approval by the FAA as re-
quired by § 145.51(a)(7).
(b) The training program must en-
sure each employee assigned to per-
form maintenance, preventive mainte-
nance, or alterations, and inspection
functions is capable of performing the
assigned task.
(c) A certificated repair station must
document, in a format acceptable to
the FAA, the individual employee
training required under paragraph (a)
of this section. These training records
must be retained for a minimum of 2
years.
(d) A certificated repair station must
submit revisions to its training pro-
gram to its responsible Flight Stand-
ards office in accordance with the pro-
cedures required by § 145.209(e).
[Doc. No. FAA–1999–5836, 66 FR 41117, Aug. 6,
2001, as amended at 70 FR 15581, Mar. 28, 2005;
Amdt. 145–30, 79 FR 46985, Aug. 12, 2014; Dock-
et FAA–2018–0119, Amdt. 145–32, 83 FR 9176,
Mar. 5, 2018]
§ 145.165 Hazardous materials train-
ing.
(a) Each repair station that meets
the definition of a hazmat employer
under 49 CFR 171.8 must have a haz-
ardous materials training program
that meets the training requirements
of 49 CFR part 172 subpart H.
(b) A repair station employee may
not perform or directly supervise a job
function listed in § 121.1001 or § 135.501
for, or on behalf of the part 121 or 135
operator including loading of items for
transport on an aircraft operated by a
part 121 or part 135 certificate holder
unless that person has received train-
ing in accordance with the part 121 or
part 135 operator’s FAA approved haz-
ardous materials training program.
[Doc. No. FAA–2003–15085, 70 FR 58831, Oct. 7,
2005]
Subpart E—Operating Rules
S
OURCE
: Docket No. FAA–1999–5836, 66 FR
41117, Aug. 6, 2001, unless otherwise noted.
§ 145.201 Privileges and limitations of
certificate.
(a) A certificated repair station
may—