Part 145 Maintenance Data Review

AeroNut

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145.A.46(g) states: The organisation shall establish a procedure to ensure that maintenance data it controls is kept up to date.

Are there any rules/guidelines on how often an organisation should review it's maintenance data?
 

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Hi
A good starting point are the EASA Easy Access Rules for Continuing Airworthiness which combines the rule with relevant GM & ACM. (some extracts below)

It is a big job but we try to check all Maintenance Data before we start a job and also before we release it unless we have a subscription service or an agreement with the customer to advise the applicable tech Data revision on their order. We setup Publication Review intervals against each publication so you can set different intervals for different types of publications and deal with publications that are not changing frequently.
Avoid specifying a set time in your MOE as it can catch you out.
Hope that helps

Extracts
AMC 145.A.45(g) Maintenance data
To keep data up-to-date, a procedure should be set up to monitor the amendment status of all data and maintain a check that all amendments are being received by being a subscriber to any document amendment scheme. Special attention should be given to TC related data such as certification life-limited parts, airworthiness limitations and Airworthiness Limitation Items (ALI), etc.

Note that since May 2022 the Part-M Maintenance data now includes Component maintenance manuals

M.A.401 Maintenance data Regulation (EU) 2021/700
(a) The person or organisation maintaining an aircraft shall have access to and use only applicable current maintenance data in the performance of maintenance including modifications and repairs.
(b) For the purposes of this Annex, applicable maintenance data is any of the following:
1. any applicable requirement, procedure, standard or information issued by the competent authority or the Agency;
2. any applicable airworthiness directive;
3. the applicable instructions for continuing airworthiness and other maintenance instructions, issued by the type-certificate holder, supplementary type-certificate holder and any other organisation that publishes such data in accordance with Annex I (Part 21) to Regulation (EU) No 748/2012;
4. for components approved for installation by the design approval holder, the applicable maintenance instructions published by the component manufacturers and acceptable to the design approval holder;
5. any applicable data issued in accordance with point 145.A.45(d).

(c) The person or organisation maintaining an aircraft shall ensure that all applicable maintenance data is current and readily available for use when required. The person or organisation shall establish a work card or worksheet system to be used and shall either transcribe accurately the maintenance data onto such work cards or worksheets or make precise reference to the particular maintenance task or tasks contained in such maintenance data.
 
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