Federal Aviation Administration

Aircraft Maintenance Division-Air Carrier Maintenance Branch

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  • |  Updated: 11:46 am ET January 22, 2009

The Air Carrier Maintenance Branch is the principal element in the division on all air carrier maintenance issues. It is responsible for developing, managing, directing, planning, organizing, coordinating, and evaluating regulations, national and international standards, policies and procedures related to the certification and surveillance of operators and the continued airworthiness of related aircraft.

Responsibilities

  • Develops regulations, standards, policies and procedures, letters, notices, orders, and Advisory Circulars.
  • Evaluates the effectiveness of the CFR’s policy and procedures, related to the branch’s area of responsibilities.
  • Reviews, analyzes, prepared, and processes required reports, recommends amendments to regulations, grants or denies petitions for exemption and rulemaking, and participates in rulemaking for 14 CFR parts 119, 121, and 135, as related to branch functions.
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Address:
Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters
Air Carrier Maintenance Branch, AFS-330
5th Floor, 950 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W.
Washington, DC 20024

Phone: (202)385-6397
Fax: (202)385-6474