CIVIL AVIATION ACT 1988 - SECT 28A Additional conditions for issue of AOC in relation to certain foreign registered aircraft

CIVIL AVIATION ACT 1988 - SECT 28A

  (1)   The additional conditions of which CASA must be satisfied for the purposes of paragraph   28(1)(c) are:

  (a)   that CASA has entered into agreements with:

  (i)   the authority responsible for regulating civil aviation in the country where the aircraft is registered; and

  (ii)   if, when the application for the AOC is made, the aircraft is operating in another country under an air operator's certificate, or a document to substantially the same effect, issued by the authority responsible for regulating civil aviation in that other country (a foreign certificate )--the body that issued the foreign certificate; and

  (b)   that each agreement sets out the areas of responsibility of the parties to the agreement in relation to the supervision of flight operations, the maintenance, and the airworthiness, of aircraft covered by the agreement; and

  (c)   that the applicant has informed CASA:

  (i)   of the aircraft's type, serial number and registration marks; and

  (ii)   of the country where the aircraft is registered; and

  (iii)   of the name and address of the person in whose name the aircraft is registered; and

  (d)   that the applicant has informed CASA:

  (i)   of the age and total time - in - service of the aircraft; and

  (ii)   of the country in which any person who operated the aircraft in the period of one year immediately before the application for the AOC had his or her principal place of business; and

  (iii)   of the country or countries in which maintenance was carried out on the aircraft during that year, other than line maintenance; and

  (e)   that the applicant has given CASA a copy of either:

  (i)   the certificate of airworthiness of the aircraft; or

  (ii)   a document to substantially the same effect as such a certificate;

    that was issued by the authority responsible for regulating civil aviation in the country where the aircraft is registered; and

  (f)   that the applicant has given CASA a statement that the aircraft complies with the airworthiness requirements of Annex   8 of the Chicago Convention or with such other airworthiness standard as CASA directs; and

  (g)   if the aircraft is leased--that the applicant has given CASA:

  (i)   the name and address of the person responsible for operational control of the aircraft under the lease agreement (whether or not that person is the applicant); and

  (ii)   the name and address of the person responsible for controlling the airworthiness and maintenance of the aircraft (whether or not the person is the applicant); and

  (iii)   a separate signed statement from each of those persons that they understand their respective responsibilities under the regulations; and

  (h)   if the aircraft is leased--that the applicant for the AOC has given CASA a description of the lease provisions.

  (2)   In this section:

"line maintenance" , in relation to an aircraft, means routine checks, inspections and malfunction rectifications performed en route and at base stations on the aircraft during transit, turn - around or night stops.