CASA Media Release - Wednesday, 20 February 2002
CASA's web site expands
Essential aircraft maintenance information dating back to the early 1950s is now available on-line after an expansion of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s web site.
Thousands of older airworthiness directives have been published on the web site to provide a complete library for the Australian aviation industry.
There are now more than 10,000 Australian airworthiness directives on the web - covering almost every aircraft still in service.
CASA has just added 3000 older airworthiness directives which had previously not been posted on the web site.
There are now references to airworthiness directives for aircraft such as the Drover, Percival Proctor and Chipmunk.
CASA belives the full library of airworthiness directives is important while a handful of these older aircraft continue to be operated.
Airworthiness directives are documents which set out mandatory maintenance or design modification work which must be carried out on an aircraft to ensure continuing safety.
The complete web library of airworthiness directives means aircraft owners and operators can for the first time access this information free-of-charge.
To make the documents user friendly, CASA has now published all 10,000 airworthiness directives in an Adobe Acrobate format for easier reproduction of diagrams and for faithful print-outs.
Media contact
Peter Gibson
mobile 0419 296 446
Ref: MR0203