[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 1]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR43.2]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 43_MAINTENANCE, PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE, REBUILDING, AND ALTERATION

--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 43.2  Records of overhaul and rebuilding.



    (a) No person may describe in any required maintenance entry or form 

an aircraft, airframe, aircraft engine, propeller, appliance, or 

component part as being overhauled unless--

    (1) Using methods, techniques, and practices acceptable to the 

Administrator, it has been disassembled, cleaned, inspected, repaired as 

necessary, and reassembled; and

    (2) It has been tested in accordance with approved standards and 

technical data, or in accordance with current standards and technical 

data accepteble to the Administrator, which have been developed and 

documented by the holder of the type certificate, supplemental type 

certificate, or a material, part, process, or applicance approval under 

Sec. 21.305 of this chapter.

    (b) No person may describe in any required maintenance entry or form 

an aircraft, airframe, aircraft engine, propeller, appliance, or 

component part as being rebuilt unless it has been disassembled, 

cleaned, inspected, repaired as necessary, reassembled, and tested to 

the same tolerances and limits as a new item, using either new parts or 

used parts that either conform to new part tolerances and limits or to 

approved oversized or undersized dimensions.



[Amdt. 43-23, 47 FR 41084, Sept. 16, 1982]