Europe’s new E3 aircraft registration process is making it easier to transfer aircraft to the national registers of member states of the new European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), according to the UK’s IBA Group, an independent aviation consultancy approved to handle the E3 registrations. IBA quality manager Steve Horton told AIN that the E3 process has effectively forced civil aviation authorities in countries such as the UK to abandon costly extra technical requirements that used to be imposed on aircraft being transferred to their register. The fact that all the EASA now use a common registration process means that once an aircraft has been registered with one state it is much easier to switch it to another.
The E3 process includes a full inspection of the aircraft to ensure that it meets the standards required for an airworthiness certificate, full checks of its records and the issuance of a certificate of design conformity. The certificate of design conformity verifies that the individual aircraft conforms to its type certificate.
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