Repair stations under FAA and European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) oversight will have updated guidance effective March 19. That is when the new Maintenance Annex Guidance (MAG) signed in November— part of an amended FAA-EASA Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement— goes into force. The update, MAG Change 8, includes several new wrinkles. Chief among them is that the guidance now applies equally to all EU countries, following a similar path that EASA’s Annex 1 has taken, the Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) says.
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