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EASA Licence

 

EASA Licence Categories

  • Category A: Maintenance Certifying Mechanic
  • Category B1: Line Maintenance Certifying Technician/Base Maintenance Technician - Mechanical
  • Category B2: Line Maintenance Certifying Technician/Base Maintenance Technician - Avionic
  • Category C: Base Maintenance Certifying Engineer

 

EASA Licence Sub-categories

  • Category A1 and B1.1: Turbine Engine Airplanes
  • Category A2 and B1.2: Piston Engine Airplanes
  • Category A3 and B1.3: Turbine Engine Helicopters
  • Category A4 and B1.4: Piston Engine Helicopters

 

Licence Privileges

Category A: This licence permits the holder to issue service release certificates following minor scheduled line maintenance and follows simple defect rectification within the limits of tasks specifically endorsed on the authorization. The certification privileges shall be restricted to work that the licence holder has personally performed in a Part-145 organization.

Category B1: This licence permits the holder to issue service release certificates following maintenance including aircraft structure, power plant mechanical and electrical systems. The privileges also include replacement of avionic line replaceable units, requiring simple tests to prove their serviceability. Category B1 shall automatically include the appropriate A subcategory.

Category B2: This licence permits the holder to issue service release certificates following maintenance on avionic and electrical systems.

Category C: This licence permits the holder to issue service release certificates following base maintenance on aircraft. The privileges apply to the aircraft in its entirety in a Part-145 organization.

 

Part-66 Licence Restrictions

The holder of a Part-66 Aircraft Maintenance Licence may not exercise certification privileges unless

  •  In compliance with the applicable requirements of Part-M and/or Part-145.
  •  In the preceding two-year period he/she has, either had six months of maintenance experience in accordance with the privileges granted by the Part-66 licence or met the provision for the issue of appropriate privileges.
  •  He/she able to read write and communicate to an understandable level in the language(s) in which the technical documentation and procedures are established and necessary to support the issue of service release certificate.