Approval of maintenance schedule: certificate of maintenance

(1) With reference to Article 16 of the Order the operator of an aircraft registered in Belize which carries or is intended by the operator for carrying passengers or goods for hire or reward shall obtain the approval in writing of the Board to maintenance schedules in respect of the aircraft and shall incorporate therein any amendments which may from time to time be required by the Board. (2) The following provisions shall apply to the maintenance and inspection of any such aircraft carried out in connection with the issue of a certificate of maintenance– (a) Prior to the issue of a certificate of maintenance the operator of the aircraft shall furnish such information as may be necessary to enable the aircraft maintenance engineers who are to sign the certificate to be satisfied that up to the date of issue of such certificate all maintenance and inspection required to be carried out in accordance with the approved maintenance schedules for the aircraft have been so carried out; (b) the (including its prescribed instruments and equipment but excluding its engines and engine installations and all instruments relating thereto) shall, subject to the provisions of subparagraph (d), be certified in the form and manner shown in regulation 31 by the holder of an aircraft maintenance engineer’s licence in Category A in respect of such aircraft; Civil Aviation 67 (c) in the case of a flying machine or an airship, the engines and engine installations and the prescribed instruments relating thereto shall, subject to the provisions of subparagraph (d) of this paragraph, be certified in the form and manner shown in regulation 31 by the holder of an aircraft maintenance engineer’s licence in Category C in respect of such engines; (d) the aircraft and engines may be certified by the same aircraft maintenance engineer if he is the holder of an aircraft maintenance engineer’s licence both in Category A and Category C in respect of such aircraft and engines, provided that the compasses may be adjusted and compensated by the holder of an airline transport pilot’s licence, a senior commercial pilot’s licence or a flight navigator’s licence, who shall certify to that effect on the deviation cards. (3) In such case as in the proviso to subregulation (2)(d), the next subsequent certificate of maintenance issued may be altered by inserting after the word “equipment” the words “other than compasses”. Such alteration to a certificate of maintenance shall be initialled by the aircraft maintenance engineer who issues the certificate.