Maintenance and Modifications
AFL-CIO: Arsa Not Interested in Repair Station Security
New foreign repair station certifications are on hold until the TSA completes its rules, scheduled for the end of the year.
New foreign repair station certifications are on hold until the TSA completes its rules, scheduled for the end of the year.

“The Aeronautical Repair Station Association (Arsa) has been quite clear…it does not see the need for security rules at contract repair stations,” Edward Wytkind, president of U.S. trade union the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department, wrote in a letter to Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The August 24 letter comes in response to an industry letter sent to Napolitano earlier in the week inquiring about the status of the repair station security rulemaking and urging Napolitano to publish the rule before year-end. The industry letter, signed on behalf of Arsa, NBAA and 10 other industry groups, cites Napolitano’s promise that the controversial repair station security rule would be completed by the end of this year.

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