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Maintenance Program History

 In the early days of aviation maintenance programs were developed primarily by

pilots and mechanics. They assessed an aircraft’s needs for maintenance based on
their individual experiences and created programs that were simple and devoid of
analysis.

 The aircraft manufacturer became the source of maintenance program development. Time
limitations were established for maintenance and the entire aircraft was periodically
disassembled, overhauled, and reassembled in an effort to maintain the highest level of safety.
This was the origin of the first primary maintenance process referred to as Hard-Time (HT).

 In 1960 representatives from both the FAA and the airlines formed a task force to investigate
the capabilities of preventive maintenance. The findings of the task force led to the
development of a second primary maintenance process
defined as On-Condition (OC). On-Condition requires that an appliance or part be
periodically inspected or checked against some appropriate physical standard to determine
whether it can continue in service. The purpose of the standard is to remove the unit from
service before failure during normal operation occurs.

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 In 1968 the Maintenance Steering Group (MSG) was created with a mandate to
formulate a decision logic process used for development of
the initial scheduled maintenance requirements for new aircraft.

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Maintenance Review Board
Report (MRBR)

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Introduction
 Maintenance Programme is a document containing
the maintenance requirements/tasks that needs to be
carried out on an aircraft in order to ensure
its continuing airworthiness
 The maintenance programme must be produced for
each aircraft type by the Operator (AOC Holder) and
subsequently approved by the National Aviation
Authority (NAA)

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MPD
Time Limit Docuemnt(AL & CMR)
AD
OEM/Vendor Requirements or Recommendations
Reliability Requirements

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Maintenance planning document (MPD)
 The MPD document provides maintenance Planning information
necessary for operators To develop a customized maintenance
Program. The document lists all Recommended scheduled
maintenance tasks For every aircraft configuration.

 MPD is generic. It is being issued by the aircraft manufacturer and

applies to many aircraft in the world wide fleet. Therefore, it is not
customized and several (hundreds of) tasks are dependent for example
on the aircraft modification status and its serial number. It cannot be
considered as a final list of tasks for a given tail number.

 MPD of course not contain the Reliability Control Board RCB

recommendations and engineering orders.
 MPD of course not contain the local authority requirements.
 MPD of course not contain custom modifications.

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 MPD

The listed mandatory

life limit may
not be increased
without consultation
with the ATR
manufacturers and
Mandatory Actions Manufacturer
specific approval from
TL (Time limit Doc.) Recommendations
the EASA.

CMRs
AL
(equipment, MRBR
(structural life
systems and
limits )
installations)

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 Maintenance Review Board Report (MRBR) -
Before introduction of a new aircraft, the aircraft manufacturer - the Type
Certificate (TC) holder – must prepare and submit for approval to the relevant
airworthiness authorities the initial minimum scheduled maintenance
requirements. These minimum scheduled requirements are outlined in the
Maintenance Review Board Report (MRBR)

 Airworthiness Limitations (Structrual Significant Items SSI)

This section is confined to structural items only. It gives the structural life limits
of the primary parts of the aircraft.
The section also gives mandatory replacement time and times between
structural inspections, as approved in Joint Aviation Requirements (JAR) and
Federal Aviation Requirements (FAR) 25.571.
It also include the Critical Design Configuration Control List related to the
fuel tank safety requirements and the Aircraft Electronic System Security
Protection (AESSP).
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 Certification Maintenance Requirements (Maint. Significant Items)
The Certification Maintenance Requirements (CMRs) are confined to the
equipment, systems and installations. It gives the maximum time between
inspections as approved in JAR/FAR 25.1309. The CMRs are necessary to keep
the same level of aircraft airworthiness as at certification.

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SB & AD
 Service Bulletins (SB) are notices to aircraft
operators from a manufacturer of Aircraft ,
Engine,Propeller notifying them of a product
improvement. (Normally not related to safety but may
be)
 Airworthiness directive (AD) is a notifications from
satate of manufacturer or state of registry to
operators of aircraft about an unsafe condition with a
particular model of aircraft, engine, avionics or other
system exists and must be corrected.
ATR SB TYPES
 Mandatory SB
About unsafe condition/Safety Related

 Recommended
For any product improvement

 Optional
On the request of operator
AD CATEGORIES
ADs may be divided into two categories:
 Those of an emergency nature requiring immediate
compliance prior to further flight, reffered to as
Emergency AD
 Those of a less urgent nature requiring compliance
within a specified period of time.
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 MPD/ Source Document received from
library(CD

New /revised Maintenance Requirements have

been implemented in Aircraft Maintenance
Program

Concerned sections requested for provision of

updated/ latest Local Task Card Indices

Updated Local Task Card Indices received

/included in AMP Document

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Concerned DCE requested for highlighting Critical/
Duplicate Inspection Tasks

Highlighted Critical/ Duplicate Inspection Tasks

received, marked & included in AMP Document

Revised AWL/ CMR/ FAL/ATR life limited

document sent to concerned sections for further
action (As required)?

Incorporated all revisions/ changes that have been

made to Aircraft Maintenance Program Document
after last AMP revision

AMP sent to PCAA for approval

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Maintenance Planning Document (MPD)
 On first sight, the MPD looks exactly like an AMP. Just like the AMP, it
contains a long table with entries for different maintenance tasks.
Aircraft modification status:
 The applicability of several tasks is dependent on the aircraft
modification status. In several cases, the MPD may list a task as “pre
mod” or “post mod”. The author of the AMP must know whether the
aircraft is “pre” or “post” in order to know which task applies and
should be carried out. Also, the aircraft may have custom modifications
embodied, which often come with their own maintenance tasks.

Aircraft Airworthiness Directives ADs status:

 The final AMP should include all applicable tasks which need to be
performed on the aircraft. This includes applicable and repetitive
inspections called for by airworthiness directives.

Aircraft Service Bulletins SB status:

 All service bulletin approved by aircraft operator /owner to carry out
should be included in AMP.

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Operator Reliability Program Reliability recommendations:
 Based on an analysis of the operator’s reliability program, the author of
the AMP can decide to shorten some maintenance intervals for given
tasks, or – on the contrary – extend them. In both cases, will need to
convince the appropriate aviation authority that such a decision is well
supported by maintenance but this can (and, in fact, should) be done
to fully account for the type of operations in a given airline.

Local authority requirements

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