A 20-page guide to what the FAA actually requires, what the work really costs you, and the specific mistakes that send first-time applications back. Written by a certificated mechanic and operator who does this for a living.
PDF, delivered immediately. If you later engage us for your manual set, the $149 comes off the fee.
Thirteen sections, in the order the questions actually come up — from whether you need the certificate at all, through to deciding whether to do it yourself.
Section 11, condensed. Very few applications fail on the maintenance. They fail on document control, internal inconsistency, and things nobody was assigned to do.
The most common failure by a distance. One or two of the twelve documents are missing — usually the contract maintenance list, the article list, or the repairman paperwork — and the entire application comes back.
Ratings worded one way on the 8400-6 and another on the 8310-3. A capability list covering articles the ratings do not. Each one is small; together they tell an inspector the applicant has not read their own package.
Template language survives into the final document: a procedure for air carrier work at a shop with no air carrier customers. You will be audited against every one of them.
Manuals built from another operator's template routinely reach the FAA carrying the previous company's name or facility description. It is the fastest way to tell an inspector the manual was not written for this applicant.
A returned application carries a deadline. Applicants whose FAA correspondence goes to an address nobody checks lose the application entirely and start again.
The guide lists eight, with the detail behind each. None of them are hard problems — that is the point worth sitting with. They are avoidable by someone who has seen them before.
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If you engage us for a manual set within twelve months, the $149 comes off the fee. Mention it on the call.
A download link on purchase and a copy by email. 20 pages, PDF.
14 CFR Part 145, FAA Notice 8900.766 and AC 145-9A. The value is in what has been assembled and ordered, not in access.
No, and deliberately so. It is a guide to the process and the requirements. If you want the manual set built, that is the engagement — and this guide explains what that involves so you can decide.
Yes. Everything here is public and the guide says so on its last page. What the guide gives you is the order things happen in, where the regulations interact, and what the FAA will actually ask as opposed to what the rule literally says.
Brian Lorenz — A&P mechanic with Inspection Authorization, commercial pilot, and the owner of an operating aircraft business since 2004. Written by someone who has been inspected, not by someone who has only read the regulation.
Buy the guide, then if you engage us for a Part 145 manual set within twelve months, we take $149 off the fee. Bring it up on the call and we will apply it.
It reflects Part 145, FAA Notice 8900.766 and AC 145-9A as published. Regulations change — verify anything you rely on for a compliance decision against the current text at drs.faa.gov or ecfr.gov. The guide says the same thing on page 1.
It is a digital document, so we cannot un-deliver it. If it genuinely was not what you expected, email us and we will sort it out.
If you are going to spend months on a Part 145 application, spend an evening first understanding where they get returned.
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