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PWS 2.0 mm NAVAIRINST 13034.1G.pdf

Posted: Dec. 8, 2022 • Type: .pdf • Size: 1.98MB

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The document is a NAVAIR instruction 13034.1G, dated 1 Jun 2022, which outlines the airworthiness policy for all Department of the Navy (DON) public air systems. It aims to implement airworthiness policy consistent with Title 10 United States Code, § 8013 and defines airworthiness roles and responsibilities across the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) organization and Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE). The instruction applies to all air systems owned, leased, operated, used, designed, or modified by or on behalf of the DON, including air systems accepted into the DON aircraft inventory and readiness reporting system, part 15 pre-accepted air systems, and contracted air services (CAS) air systems performing DON public aircraft operations (PAO). The document also details records management requirements and specifies that it cancels NAVAIRINST 13034.1F and NAVAIR M-13034.1.

The instruction further includes chapters on the airworthiness assessment process and products, specific airworthiness process and product applications, roles and responsibilities related to airworthiness authority, NAVAIR Airworthiness and Cybersafe Office (ACO), technical authorities, programmatic authorities, NAVAIR Sustainment Group, NAVAIR Procurement Group, Test Wings, TYCOM, ACCS, and TCC. Additionally, it provides appendices for references, definitions, acronyms, and changes that may affect airworthiness or safety. The foreword emphasizes the importance of enterprise-level collaboration and teamwork in ensuring airworthiness and safety for flight throughout the life cycle of DON air systems. Furthermore, it describes the partnership between certification authorities, technical authorities, programmatic authorities within NAVAIR and across the NAE, Department of Defense (DOD), industry, and internationally as crucial to its success.

This document serves as a comprehensive guide for understanding NAVAIR airworthiness policies, processes, roles and responsibilities, organizational relationships, products associated with airworthiness assessments throughout an air system’s life cycle to establish and sustain its design airworthiness. It also outlines key definitions related to airworthiness such as safety of flight and provides an overview of the DON airworthiness framework encompassing all policies necessary to establish and sustain the airworthiness of an air system throughout its life cycle.

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