Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) Certification
Aviation Design Management
provides Designated Engineering
Representatives (DERs) for FAA Certification of aircraft designs, modifications,
test plans, and manufacturing processes. DERs are authorized to approve
data for the following disciplines:
- Administrative/Management
- Structures
- Mechanical Systems and Equipment
- Flight Analyst
- Flight Test Pilot
- Powerplant
- Electrical and Avionics Systems and Equipment
Types of Approvals Supported
- Type Certificate & Supplemental Type Certificate
- Field Approval
- Repair Station
- Major Repair
- Major Alteration
Aviation Design Management coordinates major projects with federal
officials located within FAA-Aircraft Certification Offices and with local
Flight Standards District Offices (FSDO).
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Aircraft
Design and Modifications
Aviation Design Management provides specialists in the following
modification and design specialties:
- Flight manual supplements
- Structural design and installations
- Avionics and antenna installations
- Hydraulic design and installations
- Manufacturing process specifications
- Instrumentation design and installations
- Electrical systems design and installations
- Cockpit control units design and installations
- Flight control systems design and installations
- Interior design and installations
- Airframe design
- Black box design
- Technical writing
- Material selection
- Propulsion design
- EMI/RFI suppression design
- Printed circuit board design
- Environmental systems design
- Entertainment systems design and installations.
Aviation Design Management
also provides on-site modification and
installation support for customer provided aircraft mechanics and
inspection. All modifications and designs will meet or exceed customer
requirements, Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs), and known Military and/or
Federal Standards. All project documentation is produced to
MIL-STD-100 specifications using computer-aided-design.
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Aircraft
Airworthiness Inspection
Aviation Design Management
provides
Designated Airworthiness Representatives (DARs) in conjunction and coordination
with local FAA-Manufacturing Inspection District Offices (MIDO) for the
following services:
- Issuance of Airworthiness Certificates
- Export of Class II aircraft products and parts
- Issuance of special flight permits
- Import and export of Class I aircraft products,
parts, and engines
- Conformity Inspections of manufactured aircraft
parts and installations.
Aviation Design Management also provides DARs and other
inspectors to provide the customer with in-house inspections of facility and
manufacturing processes.
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Aircraft
Design Analysis
Aviation Design Management provides analysis services for the
aviation industry. Federal Aviation Regulations require certain design
analysis whenever a Type Certified aircraft is modified. The following
types of analysis are:
- Safety Assessment
- Structural
- Flight Data
- Strain gage data
- Slow Motion and Strobe Photography
- Human Factors and Cockpit Evaluation
- Passenger Compartment Interior Arrangement
- Metallurgical & Composite Material Evaluation
- Finite Element Analysis - NASTRAN/ANSYS
- Electrical Load
- Weight and Balance
- Failure Modes and Effects (FMEA)
- Damage Tolerance
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Aircraft
and Aircraft Component Testing
Aviation Design Management provides Flight Test Pilots, Flight
Analysts, and Instrumentation Analysts to insure quality and flawless operation
of an aircraft. All modifications and installations are tested within the
guidelines set by Federal Aviation Regulations.
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