A type certificate is Issued after a Certificate of Registration. Issued before a Certificate of Airworthiness. Issued after a Certificate of Airworthiness. A Type Certificate is a. Requirement prior to the issue of a C of A for aircraft in the Transport Category. Requirement for aircraft above 2730Kg MTWA. Prerequisite to the issue of a C of A. A design organisation is approved in accordance with. IR Part-21. IR Part-145. BCARs. The standard to which the B747-400 was certified to was. BCAR section D. JAR-25. JAR-21. . A Type Certificate is issued to. An aircraft type and its variants. All aircraft of a type (e.g. A340). Each aircraft of a type. A Certificate of design is raised. By the CAA. By the manufacturer. By the operator. Certificates of design certify. That a major mod has been designed adequately. That a company has design approval. That the aircraft meets current stated design requirements BCARs/EASA as specified. An aircraft manufacturer approved to EASA Part-21, may maintain aircraft and issue certificates of release to service. For any aircraft providing it is on its schedule of approval. Only if it holds a Part-M or Part-145 approval also. Only for the aircraft that it has produced. . A prototype engine is defined as. A foreign built engine which has been issued with type certificates by both the airworthiness authority of the country of origin and the British CAA. A new engine but similar to one previously investigated by the CAA for the issue of a British type certificate A type of engine which has not been evaluated by the CAA before for the purpose of the issue of a British type certificate. . A type certificate issued to an aircraft by the CAA. Shows approval of the design by the CAA but will not necessarily be approved under EASA Shows approval of the design by the CAA only. Shows approval of the design by the CAA and would be approved under EASA. An EASA Part-145 organisation may classify repairs as major or minor if approved in accordance with. EASA Part-145. EASA Part-21 subpart J. JAR OPS subpart M. A type certificate is issued to. Aircraft identical in all major areas to a previous approved aircraft. Aircraft similar to a previous aircraft but with design differences. A prototype aircraft. .
