Aircraft maintenance is the performance of tasks required to ensure the continuing airworthiness of an aircraft or aircraft part, including overhaul, inspection, replacement, defect rectification, and
An Airbus A321 from Iberia having its CFM56 engine changed out
Technicians work on a Bombardier airplane in Dallas, Texas
Field maintenance on a Cessna 172 being conducted from a van used to carry tools and parts
Two aircraft mechanics servicing a rotary aircraft engine, 1918
A type certificate signifies the airworthiness of a particular category of aircraft, according to its manufacturing design. Certification confirms that the aircraft of a new type intended for serial p
Sample type certificate issued by the USA FAA for the DC-9 aeroplane
The Buhl-Verville CA-3 Airster the first US type certificated aircraft
Test equipment on-board the A-380 very large aeroplane prototype intended for certification flight testing
Transaero Boeing 757 undergoing C-check maintenance at the British Airways Engineering maintenance base (1996)