FAR 91.1429 — CAMP Required Inspection Personnel
FAR 91.1429 sets who can perform required inspections under a CAMP: certified, trained, supervised inspectors—and never the same person who did the work.
In Plain English
FAR 91.1429 governs who is allowed to perform required inspections (RIs) on fractional ownership aircraft maintained under a Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program (CAMP). The rule exists to ensure inspections are done by qualified, independent people — a critical safety check on the maintenance system.
Key requirements:
- The inspector must be appropriately certificated, properly trained, qualified, and authorized to do the inspection.
- The inspector must be working under the supervision and control of the chief inspector when the work is performed.
- A person cannot inspect their own work — the mechanic who did the maintenance is barred from signing off the required inspection of that same item.
- The program manager (or its contracted maintenance provider) must keep a current list of authorized inspectors showing each person's name, occupational title, and the specific inspections they may perform.
- Each authorized inspector must be given written information describing their responsibilities, authorities, and limitations.
- The list must be available to the FAA Administrator on request.
Operationally, this protects against errors and conflicts of interest by separating the people who do the work from the people who verify it.
Regulation Text
14 CFR § 91.1429§ 91.1429 CAMP: Required inspection personnel.
(a) No person who maintains an aircraft under a CAMP may use any person to perform required inspections unless the person performing the inspection is appropriately certificated, properly trained, qualified, and authorized to do so.
(b) No person may allow any person to perform a required inspection unless, at the time the work was performed, the person performing that inspection is under the supervision and control of the chief inspector.
(c) No person may perform a required inspection if that person performed the item of work required to be inspected.
(d) Each program manager must maintain, or must ensure that each person with whom it arranges to perform required inspections maintains, a current listing of persons who have been trained, qualified, and authorized to conduct required inspections. The persons must be identified by name, occupational title, and the inspections that they are authorized to perform. The program manager (or person with whom it arranges to perform its required inspections) must give written information to each person so authorized, describing the extent of that person's responsibilities, authorities, and inspectional limitations. The list must be made available for inspection by the Administrator upon request.
Oral Exam Questions a DPE Might Ask
Q1Under a CAMP, who is allowed to perform a required inspection on a fractional ownership aircraft?
Per FAR 91.1429, only a person who is appropriately certificated, properly trained, qualified, and authorized — and who is working under the supervision and control of the chief inspector — may perform a required inspection.
Q2Can the same mechanic who performed maintenance also sign off the required inspection of that work?
No. FAR 91.1429(c) specifically prohibits a person from performing a required inspection on an item of work that they personally performed.
Q3What records must the program manager keep regarding authorized inspectors?
Under FAR 91.1429(d), the program manager must maintain a current list identifying each authorized inspector by name, occupational title, and the inspections they may perform, provide each inspector written notice of their authority and limits, and make the list available to the Administrator on request.
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