1.) SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR THE APPROVED CONTINUING AIRWORTHINESS MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION (CAMO)

Ensuring that all continuing airworthiness tasks on an aircraft are performed and released in a timely manner is the responsibility of the CAMO.

Mandatory approval standard:
(EU) 1321 / 2014, Part CAMO (for commercially and privately operated aircraft and their components). The approval as CAMO covers only the so-called Scope of Work (SoW): complete aircraft.

2.) CAMO TASKS

Continuing airworthiness tasks include:

• Ensuring that all scheduled maintenance tasks are performed and released in accordance with the aircraft maintenance program (AMP)  for an aircraft as prescribed by the authority or DAH* by responsible parties (maintenance organization, operator, owner).
• Ensure that all unscheduled tasks (e.g., a repair) for continued airworthiness are approved in accordance with Part 21.
• Ensure that all airworthiness directives, as required by the competent authority, are carried out on affected aircraft,

*Design Approval Holder

3.) REQUIREMENTS FOR APPROVAL AS A CAMO

Important prerequisites for the approval activities on the part of the competent authority and the application (EASA Form 2) are:

• Existence of technical, organizational, and personnel requirements to be met for the assigned scope of work, i.e., for example:
  • Existence of Airworthiness Review Staff (ARS) to perform the airworthiness review
  • Ensure effective maintenance planning for aircraft and time or condition limited components
  • Ensure effective configuration control for aircraft and components with respect to modifications, repairs, and overhauls that have occurred during the monitoring of continuing airworthiness
  • Availability of a safety manager function
  • Availability of current instructions for continued airworthiness (AMM, CRM, CMM, SRM, etc.)
  • Availability of appropriate location and access to monitored aircraft.

4.) MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN CAMO

A management system (CAMO.A.200) must be established for effective and transparent control of processes and procedures (CAME – Continuing Airworthiness Management Exposition (CAMO.A.300)).

4.1. IMPORTANT CAMO PROCEDURES

CAMO procedures must address the following requirements, among others:

• Planning of continuing airworthiness tasks based on approved aircraft maintenance programs (AMP),
• Regularly updating maintenance programs and verifying that they are current,
• Qualification of airworthiness review staff (ARS) and other personnel,
• Select and monitor maintenance organizations involved in continuing airworthiness, including other CAMOs (with limited scope in continuing airworthiness management),
• Incident Management (Occurrence Reporting),
• Safety Management System (SMS),
• Continuous monitoring of the management system as part of compliance monitoring (e.g., internal audits),
• Management of significant changes in CAMO,
• Issue or extension of airworthiness certificates (ARC) after satisfactory airworthiness review,
• Archiving of records.

4.2.PRIVILEGES

Privileges of a CAMO may include:

• Continued airworthiness management and issue of ARC (EASA Form 15a or 15b) after satisfactory airworthiness review,
• Management of continuing airworthiness and preparation of recommendations for issuing EASA Form 15a to the competent authorities after satisfactory airworthiness review,
• Subcontracting limited continuing airworthiness tasks to other CAMOs,
• Renewal of ARC (EASA Form 15a or 15b),
• Approval of aircraft maintenance programs (AMP).

5.) ACC SERVICES IN THE FIELD OF CAMO

5.1. CONSULTATION

• Assistance in establishing processes in accordance with Part CAMO,
• Support in the establishment of complete management systems according to Part CAMO,
• Process and procedure optimization in maintenance companies according to Part CAMO,
• Support in the extension of the scope of approval (Scope of Work),
• Support in the creation of maintenance programs and checking that they are up to date,
• Interim Management in the area of Comppliancemonitoringmanagement (CMM),
• Consulting for more efficient implementation of Part CAMO requirements, incl. Part M and Part ML,
• Procedure and process optimization in existing CAMOs,
• Introduction of safety management systems (SMS),
• Training concepts tailored to the scope of approval (Human factors, SMS, Part CAMO, Part M and Part ML for Airworthiness Review Staff, Maintenance Planners, CAMO Engineers, etc…,
• Project coaching of staff / teams (compliance managers, accountable manager, airworthiness review staff, maintenance planners, work planners, project managers, etc.).

5.2. PRODUCTS

• Generic CAME with procedures
• Forms and checklists (depending on needs and complexity)