DC3
Posted: 27 Mar 2009, 16:50
Just received this blurb.
DC3-Dakota - e-petition response.
The Government recognises that the Dakota DC3 is a special aircraft of historic significance which has had a lasting impact on the airline industry and played a significant role during the Second World War.
The DC3 has not been grounded by European legislation. New harmonised EU rules covering aircraft operations, known as “EU-Ops”, require aircraft to hold a standard European Certificate of Airworthiness, but operators of historic aircraft are still able to undertake commercial passenger flights if they receive an exemption from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) from the requirement. To date no DC3 exemption application has been received by the CAA.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), whose remit is to promote the highest common standards of safety and environmental protection in civil aviation, is developing new rules on airline operations. These new rules should enter force in 2012 and will replace EU-Ops.
The Department for Transport has been working with EASA, the European Commission and the CAA to resolve how aircraft exempted from the EU-Ops requirement to obtain a standard European Certificate of Airworthiness, known as “Annex ll” aircraft, will continue to operate under the EASA rules. For the present, the CAA has informed the Commission that the UK intends, subject to appropriate conditions, to exempt operators currently using Annex ll aircraft until the EASA rules come into force. The CAA has advised the commercial operators of historic aircraft of the process that needs to be followed to obtain the relevant exemptions.
Currently, the CAA has received and granted exemptions for DH 104 Dove (a British monoplane short-haul airliner), DH89A Rapide (short-haul passenger airliner of the 1930s) and Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer aircraft (transport aircraft built in the 1950s). The CAA has not received any exemption requests for DC 3 aircraft. If a request was received there is unlikely to be any reason why the CAA would not be able to issue an exemption.
Graham
DC3-Dakota - e-petition response.
The Government recognises that the Dakota DC3 is a special aircraft of historic significance which has had a lasting impact on the airline industry and played a significant role during the Second World War.
The DC3 has not been grounded by European legislation. New harmonised EU rules covering aircraft operations, known as “EU-Ops”, require aircraft to hold a standard European Certificate of Airworthiness, but operators of historic aircraft are still able to undertake commercial passenger flights if they receive an exemption from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) from the requirement. To date no DC3 exemption application has been received by the CAA.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), whose remit is to promote the highest common standards of safety and environmental protection in civil aviation, is developing new rules on airline operations. These new rules should enter force in 2012 and will replace EU-Ops.
The Department for Transport has been working with EASA, the European Commission and the CAA to resolve how aircraft exempted from the EU-Ops requirement to obtain a standard European Certificate of Airworthiness, known as “Annex ll” aircraft, will continue to operate under the EASA rules. For the present, the CAA has informed the Commission that the UK intends, subject to appropriate conditions, to exempt operators currently using Annex ll aircraft until the EASA rules come into force. The CAA has advised the commercial operators of historic aircraft of the process that needs to be followed to obtain the relevant exemptions.
Currently, the CAA has received and granted exemptions for DH 104 Dove (a British monoplane short-haul airliner), DH89A Rapide (short-haul passenger airliner of the 1930s) and Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer aircraft (transport aircraft built in the 1950s). The CAA has not received any exemption requests for DC 3 aircraft. If a request was received there is unlikely to be any reason why the CAA would not be able to issue an exemption.
Graham