Flight Standards Service
Aircraft Maintenance Division
Vision Statement: The Aircraft Maintenance Division is recognized as an organization that provides the highest level of aviation safety through the development of comprehensive aircraft maintenance policy and guidance.
Responsibilities
- Advises the agencies’ officers and executives, and other principal officials, and serves as a point of contact for the public and the aviation community on technical matters appropriate to the national level.
- Assigns special technical projects, recommends priorities, and provides broad policy and program guidance to ensure the adequacy of maintenance program activities performed by the Regulatory Support Division.
- Determined the need for, justifies, and formulates new or amended regulations and supplementary regulatory material, participates in regulatory review programs, recommends grants or denials of exemptions, and develops operations specifications (OpSpecs).
- Determines the need for and sponsors research and development projects.
- Develops and recommends national policies, standards, systems, procedures, and program plans.
- Develops, coordinates, and issues national directives to provide technical guidance on policies and procedures.
- Develops, coordinates, and recommends career development programs to ensure organizational competency for employees in this division.
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Develops standards, policies, and procedures for examining and appointing private persons to act as representatives of the Administrator, under the provisions of 49 U.S.C., sections 44702 and 45303, with respect to the maintenance and continued airworthiness of civil aeronautical products.
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