What certificates do an aircraft must own?

Once you buy a plane in the United States, how can you "take it home"? It is not easy to import an aircraft. And you must know the variety of "certificates “of an aircraft from manufacturing to taking off.

Type Certificate (TA):

A type certificate is issued to signify a design of the civil aviation product conforms to the applicable requirements of corresponding airworthiness standard and the specific conditions set by the airworthiness authority; or has the equivalent safety level approved by the airworthiness authority.

In short, a type certificate is issued by the Civil Aviation to signify the airworthiness of an aircraft manufacturing design or type.

Production Certificate:

The production certificate is a document issued by the local airworthiness authority to the aircraft manufacturer, allowing you to produce.

After reviewing the applicant's quality control information, organization and production facilities, the Airworthiness Authority believes that the applicant has been established and able to maintain a qualified quality control system and can ensure that each product produced meets the design requirements of type certificate. And an airworthiness authority is issued to the applicant to prove their production capacity

Validation of type certificate (VTC):

A validation of type certificate refers to the documents issued by the Chinese airworthiness authorities for any imported civil aviation products, which meet China's airworthiness requirements.     In another way, that is, provided that an aircraft want to export to China, it also needs a validation of type certificate issued by the Chinese Civil Aviation Authority. Only with a validation of type certificate, it can be sold to China. 

      Airworthiness certificate:

      An airworthiness certificate is issued for an aircraft by the national aviation authority in the state in which the aircraft is registered. The airworthiness certificate attests that the aircraft is airworthy insofar as the aircraft conforms to its type design. Each airworthiness certificate is issued in one of a number of different categories. A certificate of airworthiness is issued when the aircraft is registered in the name of the owner.

      One airworthiness certificate is solely for one aircraft. To name only a few, China Southern Airlines introduced the first Boeing 787, after that an airworthiness certificate is also required obtaining from the aviation authority of China when another Boeing 787 introduced.

(Evangle Luo of TTFLY shared with you)