EASA Part 145 is the Implementing Regulation issued by EASA for the aircraft maintenance sector (Maintenance Organisation Approval) establishing the requirements to be met by an organisation to qualify for the issue or continuation of an approval for the maintenance of aircraft and components.
EASA Part 145 - supercedes JAR-145 and is equivqlent to all of the folllowing
FAR-145 (14 CFR Part 145)
JAR-145
DNAR Part 145 - Talleres Aeronáuticos de Reparación (Argentina)
DGAC-145
NZCAA Part 145 - Aircraft Maintenance Organisations - (New Zealand)
QCAR Part 145
SAR Part 145 - Approved Maintenance Organisations - (Singapore)
MAR-145 - Approved Maintenance Organisations - (Macau)
RBHA-145 – EMPRESAS DE MANUTENÇÃO DE AERONAVES - (Brasil )
Maintenance training EASA Part 147 organisations are qualified to train personnel for the above to certified EASA Part 66 training certification (still referred to as jar66 b1 or jar66 b2 licensed engineers), EASA Part 21 design organisations are qualified to design.
Aircraft require regular inspection and maintenance, based on calendar age, hours flown, and cycles of takeoff-landing. Engines, landing gear, and other major systems have limits on their life in service before overhaul. There is a stream of modifications coming from the manufacturers. All this work needs to be packaged up into a series of maintenance checks, cycling through work that can be done in a single shift without a hangar, to a work package requiring several weeks in a hangar. Efficient packaging and scheduling of this work plays an important part in maximising the availability of the fleet for flying.
Liaison between airline maintenance planning, operations control and other flight operations departments becomes confusing when poor communication of changes lead to expensive, yet often avoidable delays. Maintenance planning software helps to ease the flow of information between maintenance and other departments, and utilizes the ground time available to comply with the maintenance check schedule. To ensure that technical requirements do not cause disruption to the planned flight schedule, software monitors the check history of each aircraft and produces alerts as maintenance checks approach.
Part 145 Repair Stations all round the world can certify compliant aero engine maintenance or helicopter maintenance or seat repair and overhaul or even leather seat covers.