Design Assurance System includes the following basic procedures related to the process of an aircraft sample design:

1)  product design;

"Design Management" procedures should include:

• main stages of the design process;
• work carried out at each stage;
• analysis of the impact of :
• airworthiness requirements;
• process requirements;
• market situation;
• economic and production conditions.

2)  type certification;

The procedure for Type Certification should contain:

• Overall action planning
• Certification of individual aircraft

—       Main stages

—       Export certificate of airworthiness

—       Aircraft for certification flight tests before delivery

—       Storage and archiving

• Validation of export certificate of airworthiness in the country of registration

—       Standard documentation

—       Validation in the country of registration

—       Level of the Aviation authorities involvement of the country of registration

3)  compliance documents;

Procedure for Compliance document should contain:

• Preparation of certification documents

• Category of compliance documents

• Compliance demonstration documents (certification documents)
• Form of certification documents, their signing and distribution

—       Numbering system of certification documents

—       Data transfer sheet of certification documents

—       Cover of certification documents

 

Acceptance of CERTIFICATION DOCUMENTS by Aviation authorities

4) hardware and software certification;

"Hardware and software Certification" procedures should include:

• REGULATIONS, STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES
• COMPLEX ELECTRONIC HARDWARE

—       Development Assurance Level (DAL)

—       Logical matrix of hardware issues

—       The data required for the planning issues of hardware

—       The data required for the design issues of hardware

—       The data required for the verification issues of hardware

—       The data required for final review of the hardware certification   

—       Certification documents

• •          SOFTWARE

—       Logical matrix of software check

—       The data required for the check of the software planning

—       The data required for the check of the software structure

—       The data required for the check of the verification

—       Data required for final check of software certification

—       Certification documents

 

5)    designer and Manufacturer interaction;

Procedures for Designer and Manufacturer interaction should contain

• procedure of interaction within the framework of production certification;
• procedure of interaction in the process of serial production;
• procedure of interaction in case of construction of the prototype by the Manufacturer.

6) subcontractor interaction;

The Procedures for subcontractor evaluation and surveillance should include:

• procedures for selecting subcontractors;
• procedures for subcontractor surveillance
• procedures for delivery / acceptance of works;
• monitoring of 2 level subcontractors.

7)  suppliers interaction

 The Procedures for suppliers evaluation and surveillance should include:

• procedures for selecting suppliers;
• procedures for subcontractor surveillance
• procedures for delivery / acceptance of works;
• monitoring of 2 level  suppliers.

8)  aviation equipment sample configuration management;

The Procedures for configuration management should include:

• requirements for configuration documents;
• experimental aircraft configuration management procedure;

9) introduction of changes in the type design;

The procedures for introduction of changes in the type design should include:

• Procedures for introduction of changes in the type de of the certified aircraft;

• * permitted deviations from the type design.

10) certification of the aviation equipment sample;

Procedures for aviation equipment sample should contain:

• the procedure for documentation management for an aviation equipment sample;
• aircraft delivery to the Customer;
•  the procedure for obtaining the Airworthiness Certificate.

11)  flight tests;

Procedures for flight test should contain:

• Requirements for the aircraft design 
• The procedure for the flight tests organization
• The roles and responsibilities of participants in the flight test

12)   Permission for deviations from the type design;

Procedures for permission for deviations from the type design should contain:

• Deviation type

• Decision-making procedure on product with deviation
• THE PROCESS OF ISSUING PERMISSION

—           Deviation description

—            ID number of the Permission

—           Designation of products with deviations

• Procedure for technical evaluation of deviations by the design organization

—           Procedure in the design organization

—           Effect of the accepted deviation on the maintenance manuals and technical documentation 

—           Evaluation of deviations by the airworthiness office

—           Classification of deviations

—           Decision making on deviations

• * CONCLUSION OF THE QUALITY DEPARTMENT ON REQUEST TO ISSUE A PERMISSION
• • The procedure of REQUEST approval for PERMISSION issue
• • The procedure for cancellation of a temporary index
• • The procedure for the marking of products with deviations

• The procedure for PERMISSION change
• The procedure for PERMISSION distribution

13)  continued airworthiness;

Procedures for continued airworthiness should contain:

• system of collecting information about flight accidents;
• the procedure for flight accidents investigating;
• reporting to Aviation Authorities;
• procedure for the implementation of Service bulletins and Airworthiness Directives.

14)  Instructions for continued airworthiness;

Procedures for instructions for continued airworthiness should contain:

• Procedure for the development of the section of airworthiness limitation

—           Product documentation with airworthiness limitation

—           The requirements of section airworthiness limitation»

—           Organizational chart

—           Responsibility

—           Maintenance certification requirements tasks

—           Documentation storage

• Procedures for instructions for continued airworthiness

—           Procedure for development and release of the Aircraft Maintenance Manual (AMM)

—           Procedure for development and release of the Maintenance Schedule (MS)

—           Procedure for development and release of the Engine Maintenance Manual

—           Procedure for development and release of the Maintenance Manual for the vendors

—           Responsibility

15)   service bulletins (SB);

Procedures for instructions for service bulletins should contain:

• OVERVIEW OF SB DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

• SB preparation procedure

• The procedure of SB  sending
• Procedure for amending the SB
• Critical review SB procedure
• RESPONSIBILITIES for the SB development

• SB types
• SB classification

• The process of SB introducing
• List of additional information for operators

16) approval of design repair.

Procedures for approval of design repair should contain:

• The procedure for the Structural Repair Manual (SRM)development and review

• Responsibility
• The publication issues
• Technical control
• The approval procedure of Structural Repair Manual 

• Storage of documents