This change revises the applicant responsibilities for submitting part marking data.

This notice provides guidance to regional personnel, Office
Managers, Front Line Managers (FLM), and principal inspectors (PI) on a flexible and
easy-to-use method for resourcing certificate management work across multiple offices within
a region and nationwide in order to achieve the best use of PIs while adhering to the principles of
Article 25 of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialist (PASS) and the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). This notice contains
information that is administrative in nature.

This notice directs principal operations inspectors (POI) to conduct
a focused program review of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 135
approved helicopter training and qualification programs.

This deviation allows a Manufacturing Designated Airworthiness Representative (DAR-F) with function code 19 to issue recurrent airworthiness approvals for articles.

This is required to update the line of succession for lhe Office of General Counsel
(AGC), to document the fact that the aviation insurance function has moved from the Office of
Policy, International Affairs & Environment (APL) to the Office ofSecurity & Hazardous
Materials Safety (ASH), and to update the functions of the Office of Aviation Safety (AVS).

This order establishes procedures for issuing special airworthiness certificates in the experimental category to unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), optionally piloted aircraft (OPA), and aircraft intended to be flown as either a UAS or an OPA under the designation “OPA/UAS”. This order also establishes procedures for issuing special flight permits to UAS for the purpose of production flight testing. The procedures in this order apply to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) aviation safety inspectors (ASI) and private persons delegated authority to issue special airworthiness certificates.