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LEARN: AIRCRAFT RECORDS

Aircraft logbooks, on film.

Three short films that take you from what a logbook is to how a buyer, an inspector or a lender reads it, then deep dives on the details. Each film comes with a written guide.

THE SERIES, IN ORDER

Start here.

Watch the three parts in order, about two minutes each.

Part 1 of 3 · About 2 min

How aircraft logbooks work

What the books are, who writes in them and why every page matters, from the birth of the airframe to the next sale.

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Part 2 of 3 · 2 min 5 s

ADs, SBs and 8130s

One real work order: parts off and on, release tags, a service bulletin, an Airworthiness Directive and the entry that ties them together.

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Part 3 of 3 · About 2 min

How buyers, inspectors and lenders read your logbooks

What a pre-buy inspector, a buyer and a lender look for, and where the questions come from when a record is missing.

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DEEP DIVES

One topic at a time.

For when a single entry, a time column or a part history is the question.

Deep dive

Anatomy of a logbook entry

The parts of a maintenance entry under 14 CFR 43.9 and 43.11, line by line.

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Deep dive

Time in service: TT, TSN, TSO and cycles

Airframe, engine and part times, how they carry forward and where they go wrong.

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Deep dive

Life-limited parts and back-to-birth traceability

Why some parts need a documented history from the day they were made.

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Deep dive

Adding an aircraft to your D085

The records and conformity steps for bringing an aircraft onto a Part 135 operator’s D085.

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