Stage: Final Publications

Regulatory Agency Final Publications

FAA Memo AIR010-2019-DM-01 Deviation to Orders, List of orders affected by canceled FAA Order 1350.15 Records, Organization, Transfer, and Destruction Standards

This memorandum authorizes the use of FAA Order 1350.14B, Records Management, for the
below list of orders. It voids the use of FAA Order 1350.15, Records, Organization, Transfer,
and Destruction Standards. FAA Order 1350.14B canceled FAA Order 1350.15 on December
24, 2013.
AVS received a Corrective Action Request (CAR C-16-0231) during an audit. The Office
of Quality, Integration & Executive Services (AQS) Directives Management Officer (DMO)
requests that all of our orders be changed to remove the reference to FAA Order 1350.15.
It is not feasible for AIR to correct 27 orders at this time. Eight of the orders are currently
undergoing revision.
A deviation is granted to use FAA Order 1350.14B in lieu of FAA Order 1350.15

FAA Memo AIR600-19-6C0-DM113 Deviation to FAA Order 8130.2J Authorizing the use of the ASKME Segment 2, Airworthiness Certification Application for Issuance of Aircraft Airworthiness Certificates

This memorandum authorizes a deviation from FAA Order 8130.2, Airworthiness
Certification of Aircraft, paragraph 2-3, Common Procedures for Issuing an
Airworthiness Certificate, and announces the implementation and authorizes the use of
the Aviation Safety Knowledge Management Environment (ASKME) Segment II,
electronic Airworthiness Certification (AWC) application. This application automates
the application and issuance of Airworthiness Certificates.
The primary audience for this memo is Aircraft Certification Service (AIR) Aviation
Safety Inspectors (ASI), Flight Standards Service (AFS) airworthiness ASIs,
manufacturing designees, Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) Administrators
and manufacturing Organization Management Team (OMT) members, FAA Academy
Instructors, and general public applicants. You can find this memo on the Regulatory and
Guidance Library (RGL) website: http://rgl.faa.gov.

FAA N8900.511 Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP), Voluntary Disclosure Reporting Program (VDRP), and Compliance Program

This notice supplements current policy relating to the Aviation
Safety Action Program (ASAP) and the Voluntary Disclosure Reporting Program (VDRP). The
changes are to policy contained within Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Order 8900.1,
Volume 11, Chapter 1, Section 1, Voluntary Disclosure Reporting Program for Air Carriers and
Regulated Entities; and Volume 11, Chapter 2, Section 1, Safety Assurance System: Aviation
Safety Action Program. These changes primarily address the impact and application of the
Compliance Program, calling for the removal of administrative action as a required outcome for
accepted voluntary disclosures under the VDRP, and eliminate administrative action and the
Enforcement Decision Process (EDP) tool from application to accepted reports within ASAP,
and from the current edition of FAA Order 2150.3, FAA Compliance and Enforcement Program.

FAA N8900.508 National Appointment and Termination of Designees

This notice provides guidance on national appointment and
termination of Flight Standards Service Designated Pilot Examiners (DPE), Administrative Pilot
Examiners (Admin PE), Specialty Aircraft Examiners (SAE), Designated Mechanic Examiners
(DME), Designated Parachute Rigger Examiners (DPRE), and Designated Airworthiness
Representatives–Maintenance (DAR-T). This notice also identifies additional procedures for
Flight Standards offices managing those designees.

DGAC Mexico TCAS 7.1: Subject the use of the on-board anti-collision system (ACAS) in fixed-wing aircraft operating in airspace under the jurisdiction of the United Mexican States

See attached.

Key provisions (Google Translate):

5. Applicability for the use of ACAS

5.1. All fixed-wing aircraft with a turbine engine belonging to or in possession of Dealers, Permittees or Air Operators that operate or intend to carry out international operations must comply with the laws, regulations or rules of the State where they operate or intend to operate, with respect to to the applicability of ACAS II version 7.1, the aforementioned with prior authorization or validation for the installation of said system by the Aeronautical Authority.

5.2. Except as indicated in section 5.3, all fixed-wing aircraft with turbine engines belonging to or owned by Dealers and / or Permits, whose maximum certified take-off weight exceeds 5700 kg. or in accordance with its certificate of airworthiness, are authorized to transport more than 19 passengers, must be equipped with an ACAS II, version 6.04 or higher and as of January 1, 2020, they must be equipped with an ACAS II version 7.1. or higher.

5.3. All fixed-wing aircraft in the service of Air Transport Permiters in the form of air taxi that conform to their airworthiness certificate have a configuration of less than 10 passengers, are exempt from the installation of an ACAS II, regardless of its weight maximum take-off certificate.

5.4. It is recommended that all fixed-wing aircraft belonging to or owned by Dealers and / or Licensees be equipped with an ACAS II version 7.1 or higher.

5.5 It is recommended that all fixed-wing aircraft with turbine engine, belonging to or in possession of Air Operators, whose maximum certified take-off weight exceeds 15,000 kg or in accordance with its airworthiness certificate, are authorized to transport more than 30 passengers, and for whom the corresponding airworthiness certificate was issued for the first time after November 24, 2005, are equipped with an ACAS II, version 7.1 or higher.

5.6. All fixed-wing aircraft with turbine engine, belonging to or in possession of Air Operators whose maximum certified take-off weight exceeds 15,000 kg or in accordance with their certificate of airworthiness, are authorized to carry more than 30 passengers, and for which the corresponding airworthiness certificate was issued for the first time after January 1, 2007, must be equipped with an ACAS II version 6.04 or higher; and as of January 1, 2020 they must be equipped with an ACAS II version 7.1. or higher.

5.7. It is recommended that all fixed-wing aircraft with a turbine engine, belonging to or in possession of Air Operators whose maximum certified take-off weight exceeds 5 700 kg, but does not exceed 15,000 kg, or in accordance with its airworthiness certificate. are authorized to carry more than 19 passengers, and for which the corresponding certificate of airworthiness was issued for the first time after January 1, 2008, they are equipped with an ACAS II, version 7.1. or higher.