Civil Aviation Safety Sector
The Duties & Responsibilities of the Directorate General of Airworthiness
- Ensure that the rules and regulations of airworthiness are applied properly.
- Issue Registration the Certificate for the Aircraft in the national Record.
- Issue and renew the certificates of Aircraft Airworthiness.
- Technical inspection of Aircraft, their ducts and follow up execution of maintenance and rebuilding works in accordance with the related rules, regulation and manuals.
- Approve the maintenance centers, stations and the suppliers of spare parts, systems of aircraft.
- Legalization of Aircraft type certificate .
- Approving Aircraft design and manufacturing centers.
- Participate with operations inspectors in inspecting the operation certificate .
- Approve the technical amendments and big repairs in the Aircraft.
- Approve the technical manuals of the aircraft, maintenance programmes and technical procedures of maintenance centers.
- Technical inspection on the procedures, equipment and the labs of aircraft fueling.
- Prepare the technical bulletins related to airworthiness, follow up their approval and dissemination.
- Follow up and evaluate the current international standards of airworthiness, the new standards related to the continuation of airworthiness and adopting the appropriate standards.
- Participate in the examinations especially what relate to personnel licenses who are working in maintenance.
- Evaluate the maintenance personnel to ensure that they meet the technical stipulations and requirements.
- Investigate the violations of Civil Aviation Law, rules and regulations related to airworthiness, and report them to take the legal actions.
- Participate in Aviation Accidents and Incidents.
- Reporting to ICAO the differences between Civil Aviation Regulations and Annexes of ICAO related to airworthiness .
- Ensure the insertion of the amendments on regular basis on the rules and regulations related to airworthiness.
- Prepare the plans and programmes of the technical inspection of the foreign and national aircraft, follow up their implementation and supervising them.
- Prepare the plans and training programmes for the personnel to enhance their performance and efficiency.
- Assess the personnel through their performance and reports.
- Recommend to impose the penalties by CAMA in accordance with enforced law, rules and regulations.
- Perform the tasks & duties assigned by the Assistant Deputy Chairman.