ARS - Airworthiness Review Staff (Part-CAMO) - Review & ARC Issuance

Training for Airworthiness Review Staff hosted under Part-CAMO performing the airworthiness review of Part-M and Part-ML aircraft under Reg (EU) 1321/2014 (consolidated, pre-2026/100).

  • Authority: EASA
  • Duration: 14 hours
  • CPD: 14 hours
  • Price: €60
  • Language: en
  • Online, self-paced, with a verifiable certificate of completion

About this course

The Airworthiness Review is the most consequential single act in continuing airworthiness: a qualified ARS reads the entire continuing-airworthiness record, walks the aircraft, reconciles paper to metal, and either issues, recommends or refuses the Airworthiness Review Certificate. This course trains a nominated or candidate ARS to perform that act inside the Part-CAMO framework under Reg (EU) 1321/2014 as consolidated (pre-2026/100). The host-side anchors are CAMO.A.125 (organisation privileges including the ARC-issuance privilege at CAMO.A.125(c)), CAMO.A.200 (management system, including compliance monitoring), CAMO.A.220 (record-keeping), CAMO.A.305 (personnel requirements), CAMO.A.310 (airworthiness review staff qualification and nomination), and CAMO.A.315 (CAW management). The review subject lives in Part-M (M.A.901 - 905, M.A.301 continuing-airworthiness tasks, M.A.302 maintenance programme, M.A.305 aircraft continuing-airworthiness record system) for aircraft inside Part-M scope and Part-ML (ML.A.901 - 906, ML.A.302) for aircraft inside Part-ML scope. Authority-side touchpoints are anchored to CAMO.B.305 (oversight programme), CAMO.B.355 (changes, suspension and revocation of the organisation approval) and M.B.902 (authority airworthiness review). You finish with a complete ARS pack for one aircraft, a four-pillar qualification record, a Top-Five ARC-Review Hazards drill, and a competence check that goes into your CAMO training file.

Syllabus

Module 1: Role, authority and qualification of the ARS

What the Airworthiness Review Staff actually does under M.A.901 / ML.A.903 (the review subject) as hosted by Part-CAMO (CAMO.A.125 organisation privileges, CAMO.A.305 personnel and independence), with the qualification path and authority acceptance the authority expects on file.

  • What the ars does and does not do
  • Privileges recommendation vs issuance and arc types
  • Qualification path acceptance and continued competence

Module 2: Pre-review preparation - reading the file before you walk to the aircraft

Reading the CAME, the contract, the fleet status and the AD/SB position before the review starts; building the ARC checklist anchored to M.A.901 (complex) / ML.A.903 (light); and writing a sample plan for documents, records and the physical survey - .

  • Reading the file came contract fleet status
  • The arc checklist anchored to camo a 901
  • Sample plan documents records physical survey
  • Pre review sample plan the arc evidence backbone

Module 3: The documentary review

Aircraft status documents (CofA, noise, registration, weight schedule), continuing-airworthiness records under M.A.305 / M.A.301 (AD/SB, life-limited parts, mods, repairs, deferred defects), and the maintenance programme and reliability data under M.A.302 / ML.A.302 - what the ARS must see and how to reconcile gaps.

  • Aircraft status documents cofa noise registration
  • Continuing airworthiness records ads sbs llps mods repairs
  • Maintenance programme and reliability data
  • Reconciling llp and ad gaps in documentary review

Module 4: The physical aircraft survey

Walking the aircraft per M.A.901 [Complex/M] / ML.A.903(b)-(c) [Light/ML], reconciling physical observations to records (placards, mods, repairs, missing parts), and recognising the damage, corrosion or unapproved alterations that mean the review must stop until rectified.

  • Survey scope and conduct camo a 901 b
  • Reconciling physical findings to records
  • Damage corrosion and unapproved alterations when to stop

Module 5: Findings, ARC issuance and the authority interface

How the ARS handles findings discovered during the review - rectify, defer or refuse - when to issue the ARC versus submit a written recommendation to the competent authority, which Form 15 applies (15a authority-issued, 15b CAMO-issued, 15c Part-ML), and how the activity interfaces with the authority under CAMO.B.355 / M.B.902 for first-time issuance, transfers and suspensions. Closes with the Top-Five ARC-Review Hazards drill.

  • Findings during the review rectify defer refuse
  • Issuing or recommending the arc forms 15a 15b 15c
  • Authority interface camo b 355 first issuance transfers suspensions
  • Arc issuance vs recommendation the decision record
  • Top five arc review hazards

Module 6: Practical, qualification record and competence check

Assemble a complete ARS pack for one aircraft (anchored checklist, sample plan, survey notes, ARC draft), build the four-pillar qualification record the CAMO must hold on file under CAMO.A.305, and pass the competence check that goes into your training file.

  • Practical task build your ars pack
  • Ars qualification record
  • Competence check airworthiness review staff

Regulation references

Reg (EU) 1321/2014, CAMO.A.125, CAMO.A.125(c), CAMO.A.200, CAMO.A.220, CAMO.A.305, CAMO.A.310, CAMO.A.315, CAMO.B.305, CAMO.B.355, M.A.301, M.A.302, M.A.305, M.A.901, M.A.902, M.A.903, M.A.904, M.A.905, ML.A.302, ML.A.901, ML.A.903, ML.A.904, ML.A.905, ML.A.906, M.B.902, EASA Form 15a, EASA Form 15b, EASA Form 15c

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