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Just to throw in my two cents... As I understood, back in the CAA days, there were "Aircraft Specification" for planes produced under a Production Certificate and "Aircraft Listing" for those made without a Production Certificate. These were all required to have a CAA designated representative do an inspection and flight test to approve that the craft was airworthy. This made the CAA responsible if a plane was later proven bad. As the FAA took shape, the term "Aircraft Specification" got changed to "Type Certificate Data Sheet" and the term "Aircraft Listing" was dropped as the FAA seemed less interested in maintaining strict specs for the thousands of "one-off" airplanes. Those planes built during this timeframe had their "Aircraft Specification" document names changed to "Type Certificate Data Sheet". (This is why the A-718 is an AS and the A-787 is a TCDS... "C" and "C/D" models were no longer being made). And the responsibility for airworthiness was sluffed off to an FAA company approved person (laying the blame for a poor plane back on the manufacturer instead of the FAA). Again, I am just "speculating" on this topic from the little reading I have done. None of this is FACT. It is provided in case it jogs the memory of others that might be able to confirm and/or clarify this subject. - Jason ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers-tech/
