Interpretation (Definitions)

Question 1

Aeronautical product

Answer 1

Means any aircraft, aircraft engine, aircraft propeller or aircraft appliance or part or the component parts of any of those things including any computer system and software.

Question 2

Aeroplane

Answer 2

Means a power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft that derives its lift in flight from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces that remain fixed during flight.

Question 3

Aircraft

Answer 3

Any machine capable of deriving support in the atmosphere from reactions of the air, and includes a rocket.

Question 4

Aircraft identification plate

Answer 4

Means a fireproof plate that is attached to an aircraft and identifies the aircraft as a whole

Question 5

Air Operator Certificate

Answer 5

Means a certificate issued under CARs Part Vll that authorizes the holder of the certificate to operate a commercial air service

Question 6

Air time

Answer 6

Means, with respect to keeping technical records, the time from the moment an aircraft leaves the surface until it comes into contact with the surface at the next point of landing

Question 7

Airworthiness Inspection Representative (AIR)

Answer 7

Means a full time employee of an organization approved for the distribution, manufacture, and maintenance of aeronautical products who is authorized by the Minister to certify aeronautical products for export

Question 8

Airworthiness Limitation

Answer 8

Means a limitation applicable to an aeronautical product in the form of a life limit (life-limited parts) or a maintenance task that is mandatory as a condition of the type certificate

Question 9

Airworthy

Answer 9

In respect of an aeronautical product, means in a fit and safe state for flight and in conformity with its type design

Question 10

Appliance

Answer 10

Means any instrument, mechanism, equipment, apparatus or accessory that is

a) used, or intended to be used, in operation or controlling an aircraft in flight
b) installed in or attached to, or intended to be installed in or attached to, the aircraft, and
c) not part of the airframe, engine or propeller of that aircraft

Question 11

Contracting State

Answer 11

Means a state that is a party to the Convention

Question 12

Convention

Answer 12

Means the Convention of International Civil Aviation signed on behalf of Canada at Chicago on December 7, 1944, as amended from time to time.

Question 13

Design Approval Organization

Answer 13

Means an aeronautical design organization authorized by the Minister to approve designs of aeronautical products

Question 14

Design Approval Representative (DAR)

Answer 14

Under the Aeronautics Act, the Minister may delegate to a properly qualified person the authority to find that an aeronautical product design, or parts thereof, conform to the airworthiness standards. The approval authority for a DAR may include:

a) the design approval of aeronautical products;
b) the design approval of repairs and modifications to previously approved aeronautical products

Question 15

Elementary Work

Answer 15

Means those tasks that are listed as elementary work in the Aircraft Equipment and Maintenance Standards (CARs 625, Appendix A)

Question 16

Flight Authority

Answer 16

Means a certificate of airworthiness, special certificate of airworthiness, flight permit, or validation of a foreign document attesting to an aircraft’s fitness for flight, issued under Subpart 7 of Part V, or a foreign certificate of airworthiness that meets the requirements of Article 31 of the Convention

Question 17

Flight time

Answer 17

Means the time from the moment an aircraft first moves under it’s own power for the purpose of taking off until the moment it comes to rest at the end of the flight

Question 18

Hard time

Answer 18

A maintenance process under which a part is removed from service or overhauled at fixed intervals defined in operating hours, operating cycles, or calendar time

Question 19

Identification plate

Answer 19

Means a fireproof plate that contains the Identification information referred to in section 201.08 or subsection 201.09(2), 201.10(2) or 201.11(2)

Question 20

Large Aeroplane

Answer 20

Means an aeroplane with an MCTOW (maximum certified take-off weight) of more than 5700 kilogrames (12,566lbs)

Question 21

Life-limited Part

Answer 21

Means a part that, as a condition of the type certificate, may not exceed a specific time, or number of operating cycles, in service

Question 22

Limited Supplemental Type Certificate

Answer 22

Means supplemental type certificate that is applicable only to the aeronautical products that are specified in the certificate by serial number or by some other identification unique to those products and includes a limited supplemental type approval issued before October 10, 1996 under section 214 of the Air Regulations

Question 23

Maintenance

Answer 23

Means the overhaul, repair, required inspection or modification, or removal and installation of components of an aeronautical product, but does not include

a) elementary work, or
b) servicing

Question 24

Maintenance Release

Answer 24

Means a certificate made following the maintenance of an aeronautical product, indicating that the maintenance was performed in accordance with the applicable provisions of these regulations and the standards of airworthiness

Question 25

Maintenance Review Board

Answer 25

The section of an airworthiness authority responsible for the approval of recommendations made by industry on the maintenance requirements of new aircraft types

Question 26

Major Modification

Answer 26

Means an alteration to the type design of an aeronautical product in respect of which a type certificate has been issued that has other than a negligible effect on the weight and centre-of-gravity limits, structural strength, performance, power plant operation, flight characteristics or other qualities affecting the aeronautical product’s airworthiness or environmental characteristics

Question 27

MEL or minimum equipment list

Answer 27

Means a document approved by the Minister pursuant to subsection 605.07(3) that authorizes an operator to operate an aircraft with aircraft equipment that is inoperative under the conditions specified therein, and may specify certain equipment that must be operative

Question 28

Owner

Answer 28

In respect of an aircraft, means the person who has legal custody and control of the aircraft

Question 29

Primary Structure

Answer 29

Means a structure that carries flight, ground, or pressure loads

Question 30

Serviceable

Answer 30

In respect of an aircraft or aircraft part, means fit and safe for flight

Question 31

Servicing

Answer 31

In respect of an aeronautical product, means cleaning, lubricating and replenishment of fluids not requiring the disassembly of the product

Question 32

Small Aircraft

Answer 32

Means an aeroplane having a maximum permissible take-off weight of 5700kg (12,566lbs) or less, or a helicopter having a maximum permissible take-off weight of 2730kg (6,018lbs) or less

Question 33

Supplemental Type Certificate

Answer 33

Means a document, issued by the Minister to record the approval of a change to the type design of:
a) an aeronautical product identified in the document by a single serial number,
b) several aeronautical products of the same type or model, approved under a single type certificate and identified in the document by their serial numbers, or
c) several aeronautical products of different types or models, approved under separate type certificates and identified in the document
(Includes a limited supplemental type approval and a supplemental type approval issued before October 10, 1996, and a limited supplemental type certificate issued before December 1, 2009)

Question 34

Type

Answer 34

Means;

a) when used in reference to personnel licensing, a specific make and model of aircraft, including modifications thereto that do not change its handling or flight characteristics, and
b) when used in reference to the certification of aircraft, a classification of aircraft having similar design characteristics

Question 35

Type Certificate

Answer 35

Means a document issued by;

a) the Minister certifying that the type design of an aircraft, aircraft engine, aircraft propeller or aircraft appliance meets the applicable standards for that aeronautical product, as recorded in the type certificate data sheets, and includes;
b) the foreign airworthiness authority having jurisdiction over the type design of an aeronautical product that is equivalent to a document referred to in paragraph (a) and has been accepted by the Minister for the purpose of issuing a certificate of airworthiness

Note: Before CARs came into force, the approval of type design by TC was known as a Type Approval. These are now recognized as type certificates.

Question 36

Type Design

Answer 36

Means;

a) the drawings and specifications, and a listing of those drawings and specifications that are necessary to define the design features of an aeronautical product in compliance with the standards applicable to the aeronautical product,
b) the information on dimensions, materials and manufacturing processes that is necessary to define the structural strength of an aeronautical product,
c) the approved Sections of the aircraft flight manual, where required by the applicable standards of airworthiness,
d) the airworthiness limitations Section of the instructions for continued airworthiness specified in the applicable chapters of the Airworthiness Manual; and
e) any other data necessary to allow, by comparison, the determination of the airworthiness and, where applicable, the environmental characteristics of later aeronautical products of the same type or model

Question 37

Vintage aircraft

Answer 37

Means an aircraft that was manufactured prior to January 1, 1957

Question 38

Repair Design Approval

Answer 38

Means a document, including a repair design certificate issued before December 1, 2009, issued by the Minister to record the approval of:

a) a repair design in respect of a repair to an aeronautical product identified in the document by a serial number, or
b) a repair process in respect of a repair to an aeronautical product or any of its components, identified in the document by a serial number, by a part number or by some other identification unique to the component