The FAR AIM translated

Part 43: Maintenance, Preventative Maintenance, Rebuilding and Alteration

43.1 Rules for doing anything to the airplane. Experimentals and Light Sport are not included in this

Part 43.3 Who is allowed to do MX and under what license. The holder of a certificate or repairmans cert may do the mx under part 65

Any person may do whatever the supervisor is allowed to do under the supervisors personal supervision except inspections

A person with a repair station may do the items delt with in part 145

A (not light sport)pilot may do preventive mx on any aircraft which is not used under 121,129, or 135 ops. UNLESS YOU ARE A HELICOPTER PILOT  in the middle of nowhere and no mechanic is available and you have had the training etc….

A manufacturer may rebuild or alter any (item) or inspect any aircraft it makes

Part 43.5 Approval for return to service

Cannot approve return to service anything that does not have the mx entry under 43.9 or 43.11.

Part 43.7 Persons authorized to return items to service.

Administrator can do anything

AP or IA may return items to service as guided by part 65

Repair station is guided by part 145

Air Carrier is part 121 or 135

A private pilot may return aircraft to service after preventative mx

Part 43.9 Content, Form and Disposition of mx, preventative mx, and rebuilding not  part 91, 125 or 135. (what your signoff requires)

When you return an aircraft to service as a mechanic or IA… you need your description of work, date of completion, name of worker, signature, cert number and if you need a 337 (major alteration or repair form)  you have to put one in the logs and one to the FAA at FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, Aircraft registration branch, Post Office Box 25082, Oklahoma city, OK 73125.

And if you do one for a fuel system, that is special and you need one in the airplane as well. 

337’s get turned in 48 hrs after inspection of repair etc

Part 43.11 (Mechanics this is our bread and butter) Content Form and Disposition of records for inspections conducted under 91 and 125. What we need to put in log books

Type of inspection and brief description of INSPECTION

Date and aircraft total time in service, signature, cert number and type

RETURN TO SERVICE (not progressive inspection) 

-------I CERTIFY THAT THIS AIRCRAFT HAS BEEN INSPECTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH (BLANK) INSPECTION AND WAS DETERMINED TO BE IN AIRWORTHY CONDITION--------

NON RETURN TO SERVICE

------------ I CERTIFY THAT THIS AIRCRAFT HIAS BEEN INSPECTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH (BLANK) INSPECTION AND A LIST OF DISCREPANCIES AND UNAIRWORTHY ITEMS DATED (DATE) HAS BEEN PROVIDED FOR THE AIRCRAFT OWNER OR OPERATOR--------------

Part 43.12 Maintenance records Falsification, reproduction, or alteration

Don’t make false records…. Bad juju…. “MAKE OR CAUSE TO MAKE”

Part 43.15 Additional Performance rules for inspection.

For rotorheads… we all must use a checklist, of your own design or other, and they must include whats in appx d. cont