ARP6943 Component Traceability Requirements for Life-Limited Parts
Current
03/12/2024
- Features
- Issuing Committee
- Content
- This document contains the recommended practices for the traceability of civil aircraft life-limited parts (LLPs) applicable to landing gears. A unified means of tracking flight cycles, flight hours, and calendar time is provided, which will ease the interchange of parts between companies and through the component’s life cycle. A harmonized means of defining “back-to-birth” (BtB) traceability is provided to ensure airworthiness of service LLPs.
- Content
- Civil aircraft components such as landing gears which are removed from aircraft for overhaul or exchange onto other aircraft must be traced - the aircraft, consumed life, maintenance, repair, and incident history must be maintained to provide correct evidence of the usage history of the component. While all companies agree that back-to-birth (BtB) traceability is required, there is not an international agreement on the recommended practice for providing and maintaining this data.
- Pages
- 23
- Citation
- SAE International Recommended Practice, Component Traceability Requirements for Life-Limited Parts, SAE Standard ARP6943, Issued March 2024, https://doi.org/10.4271/ARP6943.