Imagine the possibilities for improving the smoothness, costs and flexibility of obtaining and maintaining your corporate aircraft operational certification if the nation’s regulatory agency decided to hand over that approval process to a business aviation trade association. It’s hard to imagine the FAA doing this in the U.S, but it is exactly what Transport Canada has done. Effective January 1 the Canadian Business Aviation Association has taken over Transport Canada’s role for approving and monitoring that country’s private operator certification (POC).
The agreement between Transport Canada and CBAA is the culmination of a nearly four-year effort. Initial discussions on the concept started in 1999. An official study was undertaken in 2000 leading to formal proposals in 2001 to revise civil aviation regulations for operational safety standards (CAR 604). The revisions would require private operators of Canadian-registered pas- senger-carrying, pressurized turbine airplanes with a mtows of more than 12,500 pounds to obtain their operating certificate through CBAA. The measure was adopted last year for implementation last month and gives new and current operators all of this year to comply.
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