1.) SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR AN APPROVED CONTINUING AIRWORTHINESS MANAGEMENT ORGANISATION (CAMO – Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation)

Ensuring that all continuing airworthiness tasks for an aircraft are performed and released on time is the core responsibility of the CAMO.

Mandatory approval standard:

Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014, Part-CAMO – applicable to commercially and privately operated aircraft and their components.
The CAMO approval is limited exclusively to the defined Scope of Work (SoW), i.e. complete aircraft.

2.) CAMO TASKS

Continuing airworthiness tasks include, among others:

• Ensuring that all scheduled maintenance tasks in accordance with the Aircraft Maintenance Programme (AMP)for an aircraft—as required by the competent authority or the DAH*—are performed and released by the responsible organisations (maintenance organisation, operator, owner)
• Ensuring that all unscheduled tasks (e.g. repairs) required to maintain airworthiness are approved in accordance with Part 21
• Ensuring that all airworthiness directives, as required by the competent authority, are performed on the affected aircraft

DAH = Design Approval Holder

3.) REQUIREMENTS FOR CAMO APPROVAL

Key prerequisites for the approval activities by the competent authority and for submitting the application (EASA Form 2) include:

• Availability of the technical, organisational, and personnel resources required for the approved Scope of Work. This includes, among others:
  • Availability of Airworthiness Review Staff (ARS) to perform airworthiness reviews
  • Ensuring effective maintenance planning for aircraft and components subject to continuing monitoring
  • Ensuring efficient configuration control for aircraft and components with regard to changes, repairs, and overhauls carried out during the monitoring period
  • Appointment of a Safety Manager function
  • Availability of current Instructions for Continuing Airworthiness (e.g. AMM, CRM, CMM, SRM, etc.)
  • Availability of suitable facilities and access to the aircraft under continuing airworthiness management

4.) MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN CAMO

To manage processes and procedures effectively and transparently, a management system (CAMO.A.200) must be established and described in a manual—the Continuing Airworthiness Management Exposition (CAME, CAMO.A.300).

4.1 Key CAMO procedures

CAMO procedures must, among other things, address the following requirements:

• Planning continuing airworthiness tasks based on approved maintenance programmes (AMP)
• Regularly updating maintenance programmes and verifying that they remain current
• Qualification of personnel to perform airworthiness reviews (ARS)
• Selection and oversight of maintenance organisations involved in continuing airworthiness and other CAMOs (limited continuing airworthiness tasks)
• Occurrence management (Occurrence Reporting)
• Safety Management System (SMS)
• Continuous monitoring of the management system within Compliance Monitoring (e.g. internal audits)
• Management of significant changes within the CAMO
• Issuing or extending Airworthiness Review Certificates (ARC) after a satisfactory airworthiness review
• Archiving relevant records

4.2 Privileges

Privileges of a Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation (CAMO) may include, among others:

• Managing continuing airworthiness and issuing Airworthiness Review Certificates (ARC) (EASA Form 15a or 15b) after a satisfactory airworthiness review
• Managing continuing airworthiness and issuing recommendations to the competent authority for the issuance of EASA Form 15a after a successful airworthiness review
• Subcontracting limited continuing airworthiness tasks to other CAMOs
• Extending Airworthiness Review Certificates (ARC) (EASA Form 15a or 15b)
• Approving maintenance programmes (AMP)

5.) ACC SERVICES IN THE FIELD OF CAMO

5.1 Consulting

Our Part-CAMO consulting services include, among others:

• Support in establishing processes in accordance with Part-CAMO
• Support in building complete management systems in accordance with Part-CAMO
• Process and procedure optimisation in organisations under Part-CAMO
• Support in extending the approval scope (Scope of Work)
• Support in creating maintenance programmes and verifying that they remain up to date
• Interim management in the area of Compliance Monitoring Management (CMM)
• Consulting for more efficient implementation of Part-CAMO requirements, including Part M and Part ML
• Optimisation of existing procedures and processes within established CAMOs
• Implementation of Safety Management Systems (SMS)
• Development of tailored training concepts aligned with the approval scope (e.g. Human Factors, SMS, Part-CAMO, Part M, Part ML for Airworthiness Review Staff, maintenance planners, CAMO engineers, etc.)
• Project support coaching for employees and teams (Compliance Managers, Maintenance Managers, Airworthiness Review Staff, maintenance planners, work planners, project managers, etc.)

5.2 Deliverables / Products

Our CAMO products support efficient implementation of legal requirements and include:

• Generic CAME with standardised procedures
• Forms and checklists (depending on needs and complexity)