Air Traders helps repair stations and MROs earn, grow and protect their FAA Part 145 certificate. Every consultant is a former FAA professional, so your manuals, ratings and inspections are prepared from the inspector’s side of the table.
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Getting a Part 145 certificate means satisfying an FAA certification team that your manual, your people, your tools and your data all line up. Keeping it means proving the same thing every time an inspector walks in, through every new rating, new customer and new location.
That is the work we do all day. Our consultants spent their careers evaluating repair stations for the FAA. Now we build the repair station manual, quality control system, training program and capability list with you, then walk your team through the inspection before the FAA does.
New to the process? Start with our step by step guide to getting a Part 145 certificate.
Pick the stage you are in. We will tell you honestly what the FAA will expect next.
New certificates for US shops, from the PASI and Form 8310-3 through the FAA inspection.
FAA certificates and renewals for shops outside the United States.
An RSM and quality control manual your inspectors and your technicians can both follow.
Class and limited ratings, capability list growth and the self-evaluations behind it.
Revisions, new ratings, new locations, findings and FAA surveillance support.
Mock FAA inspections and independent audits before the real visit.
The FAA and foreign authorities make every approval decision. We prepare complete, inspection ready packages and stand with you through each phase.
Founders and investors building a shop and applying for a first Part 145 certificate.
Shops adding ratings, locations, capability list items or new customer approvals.
Accessory, instrument, powerplant and propeller shops with limited or class ratings.
Foreign repair stations seeking or renewing an FAA certificate.
Accountable managers, QA leads and chief inspectors preparing for FAA visits.
Air carriers, Part 135 operators and producers that rely on solid maintenance partners.
We learn your work scope, your customers, your people and your facility.
Ratings, documents, staffing and FAA milestones laid out before work starts.
RSM, QCM, training program, forms and roster built with your team.
A mock FAA inspection, then support during the real evaluation.
Revisions, new ratings, audits and surveillance support as you grow.
Supplements and MAG revisions so your shop can release work for European and UK customers.
MOM, training and audit support for FAA repair stations seeking CAAC acceptance.
TCCA supplements under the MIP and BASA for shops with Canadian customers.
Export approvals, airworthiness certificates and special flight permits from our DAR.
SMS programs for MROs and operators, built around real hazards on your floor.
Training that supports your 145.163 program, human factors and foreign authority rules.
Part 5 now reaches Part 135 operators, air tour operators and Part 21 design and production holders, with compliance due May 28, 2027. Find your sector.
A sector by sector guide to Part 5, Part 139 and voluntary SMS programs.
Part 5 compliance due May 28, 2027, with a declaration of compliance to the FAA.
Part 21 TC and PC holders now covered by Part 5.
A voluntary SMS that insurers and students notice.
Flight departments, IS-BAO and helicopter operators.
Ramp, fueling and ground handling safety.
AerospaceSMS is our sister brand: Safety Management System software designed by former FAA inspectors. Repair stations use it to strengthen safety for their air carrier customers, and Part 135, Part 121, Part 21 and airport organizations use it to meet their SMS rules. A properly designed and followed SMS finds the hazards that cost money and lives before they become accidents.
Five-phase airline certification and the full manual and program set.
Certification, manuals and contract DO and DOM support for on-demand operators.
Operator and aircraft authorization for extended range operations.
GOM, GMM, MEL, CDL, training and supplement manuals for every certificate type.
Former FAA inspector analysis of maintenance, operations and oversight issues.
Modifications, completions, pre-purchase inspections and MRO coordination.
Readiness, certification support and risk work for unmanned and advanced air mobility.
Air Traders is an Aviation Support brand of Allied Services Group, LLC. Our sister brands share the same team of former FAA professionals.
Our flagship consulting and certification practice for repair stations, operators and manufacturers.
Safety Management System software for hazard reporting, risk, corrective action and safety performance.
Our international practice for FAA, EASA, UK CAA, CAAC and TCCA approvals.
It allows the shop to perform maintenance, preventive maintenance and alterations on aircraft and articles within its ratings and its capability list, and to approve that work for return to service under 14 CFR Part 145. Our Part 145 guide explains each rating.
The process begins with a Pre-Application Statement of Intent (FAA Form 8400-6) and a meeting with the FAA, followed by the formal application on FAA Form 8310-3 with your manuals. We help you prepare both and plan every phase.
Part 145 requires a repair station manual and a quality control manual. Many shops combine them in one document, which is acceptable when every required element is covered. We help you choose the format that fits your shop.
Yes, when it can show the certificate is necessary to maintain US registered aircraft or articles used on them. Foreign certificates are issued for a limited period and must be renewed. See foreign repair station certification.
Yes. Every consultant on our team is a former FAA professional, and together we bring more than 300 years of collective aviation experience.
No. The FAA decides, on its own schedule. What we deliver is a complete, organized application and a team that knows how inspectors evaluate it, which removes most avoidable delays.
Share your shop, your location and the approval or project you are working on. A former FAA professional will contact you within one business day.
