This order describes how to complete Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) Form 8130-3, Authorized Release Certificate, FAA Form 8130-3,
Airworthiness Approval Tag, for aircraft engines, propellers, and articles produced under title 14,
Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 21, Certification Procedures for Products and
Articles. It describes the use of the form as evidence of a conformity inspection for prototype
aircraft engines, propellers, or articles in Type Certification, Supplemental Type Certification, or
PMA programs; as an airworthiness approval for an aircraft engine, propeller, or article
manufactured under an FAA production approval to find compliance with §§ 21.146, 21.316,
and 21.616; as an export airworthiness approval under § 21.325(b); and as an authorized release
document (ARD) under § 21.137(o).

This order provides guidance and assigns responsibility for aircraft certification service (AIR)
personnel to provide oversight of a design and production approval holder with a safety
management system (SMS) that is required under Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations
(14 CFR) Part 5 or accepted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under the voluntary
SMS program. This order also instructs AIR personnel on how to provide safety management
guidance to an approval holder that is not required to meet Part 5 and has not entered the
voluntary SMS program.

This order describes how the Aviation Safety Organization (AVS) staff use the Monitor
Safety/Analyze Data (MSAD) process within the Aircraft Certification Service (AIR) Safety
Management System (SMS) to help identify safety issues and manage risk in aviation products
throughout their life cycle.

This change incorporates requirements from the Aircraft Certification, Safety, and
Accountability Act (ACSAA) of 2020, as well as recommended changes from the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).

This order provides guidance and assigns responsibility for the implementation of the Aircraft Certification Service (AIR) certificate management of production activities of manufacturers and their suppliers producing products and articles in accordance with Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations. This order has been organized into seven chapters covering five functional components. Chapters
1 and 2 include general information and describe the certificate management overview and process. Chapter 3 describes ongoing certificate management responsibilities, including production approval holder (PAH) risk assessment and risk within a facility. Chapter 4 describes the types of certificate management audits. Chapter 5 describes additional oversight responsibilities. Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 describe the oversight information system and administration information. The appendices to this order provide additional information for conducting certificate management oversight.

This change, advisory circular (AC) 25-7D Change 1, incorporates updates and adds or
revises guidance for stall in-ground-effect and for tailwind and crosswind capability.

This advisory circular (AC) provides guidance to those persons applying for a Flight
Standardization Board (FSB) to have new or modified aircraft types and models evaluated for the
purpose of determining minimum flightcrew training, checking, and currency recommendations;
determining and establishing pilot type ratings; developing recommended aircraft type-specific
training; and determining the scope of differences training and related aircraft differences
training. This AC applies to aircraft manufacturers, type certificate (TC) holders, and aircraft
modifiers seeking to use the FSB process.
Use of this AC enhances the safety of flight operations by providing a standard method of
relating pilot training and qualification requirements to fleet characteristics, operating concepts,
and pilot assignments; providing a consistent standard for determining necessary training
resources or devices; encouraging aircraft manufacturers to design with the goal of developing
common characteristics between related aircraft; and providing a recommended framework for
application of suitable credits or constraints to address new technology and future safety
enhancements.
This revision reformats the AC and replaces the appendices with chapters; adds new and revised
definitions and acronyms; clarifies Aircraft Evaluation Division (AED) responsibilities;
incorporates human factors (HF) considerations; revises references; clarifies pilot training,
qualification, and type rating evaluation; updates rating and level tests planning and proposals;
and removes operator Differences Tables (DT) and related principal inspector responsibilities.