WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Part 21 G, also known as Production Organisation Approval (POA), is a regulatory framework that governs the production of aircraft, components, and systems. It sets forth the requirements and procedures that a company must adhere to in order to obtain approval as a Production Organization.

Production organizations must demonstrate the existence of a suitable and effective quality system. The system must ensure that compliance with and suitability of internal regulations and procedures are verified by independent audits. In addition to that it must contain a feedback loop to executive staff and the accountable manager.

Production organizations must have a production organization exposition POE in place where the organization is characterized by its quality system, substantial procedures, personal resources, operational facilities, structure, and scope of activities and approval.

The organization is to appoint an accountable manager in charge of all legal aspects who must have access to sufficient organizational personal and technical resources required for production. Beyond that production is permissible only if approved data published by the responsible design organization are fully and correctly available throughout the organization at its current revision status.

Approved production organizations are entitled to produce aircraft as well as parts and appliances in the context of their approval, and to provide them with an official release certificate (EASA Form 1).

The agreement between the design and production organization is referred to as a PO/DO arrangement (Production organization/Design organization). The objective of such an arrangement is to ensure the products' continuing airworthiness.