T.A.501 Maintenance Organisation

The continuing airworthiness management organisation shall ensure that the aircraft and its components are maintained by organisations complying with the following requirements:

(1) The organisation holds a maintenance organisation approval issued or acceptable to the State of Registry.

(2) The scope of approval of the organisation includes the appropriate aircraft and/or component capability.

(3) The organisation has established an occurrence reporting system which ensures that any identified condition of an aircraft or component which endangers the flight safety is reported to the operator, the CAA, the organisation responsible for the type design or supplemental type design and the continuing airworthiness management organisation.

(4) The organisation has established an organisation's manual providing a description of all the procedures of the organisation.