The Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organization) Regulations, 2025
2. Interpretation
2. Interpretation
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—"acceptable" means the Authority has reviewed the method, procedure or policy and has neither objected to nor approved its proposed use or implementation;"accountable executive" means the person who is accountable to the Authority on behalf of the organization and has the final responsibility for the effective and efficient performance of the maintenance organization;"Act" means the Civil Aviation Act (Cap. 394);"aeronautical product" means any aircraft, engine, propeller, or subassembly, appliance, material part, or component to be installed thereon;"aeroplane" means a power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces which remain fixed under given conditions of flight;"aircraft" means any machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air, other than the reactions of the air against the earth's surface;"aircraft component" means any assembly, item component, part of an aircraft up to and including a complete power plant or any operational or emergency equipment;"aircraft type" means all aircraft of the same basic design;"airframe" means the fuselage, booms, nacelles, cowlings, fairings, airfoil surfaces (including rotors but excluding propellers and rotating airfoils of a power plant) and landing gear of an aircraft and their accessories and controls;"airworthy" means the status of an aircraft, engine, propeller or part when it conforms to its approved design and is in a position for safe operation;"airworthiness data" means any information necessary to ensure that an aircraft or aircraft component can be maintained in a condition such that airworthiness of the aircraft, or serviceability of operational and emergency equipment, as appropriate, is assured;"AMO" means Approved Maintenance Organization;"AOC" means Air Operator Certificate;"appliance" means any instrument, mechanism, equipment, part, apparatus, appurtenance or accessory, including communication equipment, that is used or intended to be used in operating or controlling an aircraft in flight, is installed in or attached to the aircraft, and is not part of an airframe, power plant, or propeller;"appropriate airworthiness requirements" means the comprehensive and detailed airworthiness code established, adopted or accepted by the Authority for the class of aircraft, engine or propeller under consideration;"approved by the Authority" means approved by the Authority directly or in accordance with a procedure approved by the Authority;"approved data" means technical information approved by the Authority;"approved continuous maintenance program" means a maintenance program approved by the State of Registry;"Approved Maintenance Organization" means an organization approved to perform specific aircraft maintenance activities by the Authority;"approved standard" means a manufacturing, design, maintenance, or quality standard approved by the Authority;"article" means any item, including but not limited to, an aircraft, airframe, aircraft engine, propeller, appliance, accessory, assembly, sub-assembly, system, sub-system, component, unit, product, or part;"Authority" means the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority;"calibration" means a set of operations, performed in accordance with a definite documented procedure, that compares the measurement performed by a measurement device or working standard for the purpose of detecting and reporting or eliminating by adjustment errors in the measurement device, working standard, or component tested;"certifying staff" means personnel authorized by the approved maintenance organization in accordance with a procedure acceptable to the Authority to certify aircraft or aircraft components for release to service;"composite" means structural materials made of substances, including, but not limited to, wood, metal, ceramic, graphite, boron, epoxy, plastic, fiber-reinforced built-in strengthening agents that may be in the form of filaments, foils, powders or flakes, of a different material;"composite structure" means a type of aircraft structure made of plastic resins reinforced with strong light weight filaments;"computer system" means any electronic or automated system capable of receiving, storing, and processing external data, and transmitting and presenting such data in a usable form for the accomplishment of a specific function;"Contracting State" means a state that is signatory to the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention);"Engine" means a unit used for aircraft propulsion. It consists of at least those components and equipment's necessary for functioning and control, but excludes the propellers/rotors, if applicable;"facility" means a physical plant, including land, buildings, and equipment, which provides the means for the performance of maintenance, preventive maintenance or modifications of any article;"helicopter" means a heavier-than-air aircraft supported in flight chiefly by the reactions of the air on one or more power driven rotors on substantially vertical axis;"housing" means buildings, hangers and other structures to accommodate the necessary equipment and materials of a maintenance organization that—(a)provide working space for the performance of maintenance, preventive maintenance, or modifications for which the maintenance organization is certificated and rated;(b)assembly and testing;(c)provide structures for the proper protection of aircraft, airframes, aircraft engines, propellers, appliances, components, parts, and subassemblies thereof during disassembly, cleaning, inspection, repair, modification; and(d)provide for the proper storage, segregation, and protection of materials, parts, and supplies;"inspection" means the examination of an aircraft or aircraft component to establish conformity with a standard approved by the Authority;"Limited-Rating" means rating issued to an approved maintenance organization for the performance on particular makes and models of sub-parts of the airframes, power plants, propellers, radios, instruments, accessories or parts;"maintenance" means the performance of tasks on an aircraft, engine, propeller or associated part required to ensure the continuing airworthiness of an aircraft engine, propeller or associated part including any one or combination of overhaul, inspection, replacement, defect rectification, and the embodiment of a modification or repair;"maintenance organization's procedures manual" means a document endorsed by the head of the maintenance organization which details the maintenance organization's structure and management responsibilities, scope of work, description of facilities, maintenance procedures and quality assurance or inspection systems;"maintenance records" means records that set out the details of the maintenance carried out on an aircraft, engine, propeller or associated part;"maintenance release" means a document which contains a certification confirming that the maintenance work to which it relates has been completed in a satisfactory manner in accordance with appropriate airworthiness requirements;"major modification" means a type design change not listed in the aircraft, aircraft engine, or propeller specifications that might appreciably affect the mass and balance limits, structural strength, performance, power plant operation, flight characteristics, or other qualities affecting airworthiness or environmental characteristics, or that will be embodied in the product according to non-standard practices;"major repair" means a repair of an aeronautical product that might appreciably affect the structural strength, performance, power plant, operation flight characteristics, or other qualities affecting airworthiness or environmental characteristics, or that will be embodied in the product using non-standard practices;"minor modification" means a modification other than a major modification;"minor repair" means a repair other than major repair;"modification" means a change to the type design of an aircraft or aeronautical product which is not a repair;"overhaul" means the restoration of an aircraft or aircraft component using methods, techniques, and practices acceptable to the Authority, including disassembly, cleaning, and inspection as permitted, repair as necessary, and reassembly and testing in accordance with approved standards and technical data, or in accordance with current standards and technical data acceptable to the Authority, which have been developed and documented by the State of Design, holder of the type certificate, supplemental type certificate, or a material, part, process, or appliance approval under Parts Manufacturing Authorization (PMA) or Technical Standard Order (TSO);"powerplant" means the system consisting of all the engines, drive system components (if applicable), and propellers (if installed), their accessories, ancillary parts, and fuel and oil systems installed on an aircraft but excluding the rotors for a helicopter;"prescribed" means prescribed by the Authority;"preventive maintenance" means simple or minor preservation operations and the replacement of small standard parts not involving complex assembly operations;"quality system" means documented organizational procedures and policies, internal audits of those policies and procedures, management review and recommendation for quality improvement;"repair" means the restoration of an aircraft, engine, propeller or associated parts to an airworthy condition in accordance with the appropriate airworthiness requirement after it has been damaged or subjected to wear;"scope of approval" means the approval of class, ratings and limitations issued to the maintenance organization and subject to the conditions specified in the maintenance organization procedures manual;"State of Design" means the State having jurisdiction over the organization responsible for the type design;"State of Manufacture" means the State having jurisdiction over the organization responsible for the final assembly of the aircraft, engine or propeller;"State of Registry" means the State on whose register an aircraft is entered;"Tribunal" means the National Civil Aviation Administrative Review Tribunal established under the Act;"type certificate" means a document issued by a contracting state to define the design of an aircraft, engine or propeller type and to certify that this design meets the appropriate airworthiness requirements of that state; and"type design" means the set of data and information necessary to define an aircraft, engine or propeller type for the purpose of airworthiness determination.Source: Kenya Law