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.
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.
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