Spec 2500: Aircraft Transfer Records, Revision 2023.1

Description

This specification provides an industry standard for exchanging aircraft, engine and/or major assets’ historical records and current status, in standardized, electronic (XML) formats. It is intended to be used by operators who are buying/selling aircraft, lessors and lessees during a lease return, or aircraft/engine manufacturers at initial delivery. It includes the below primary status data, as well as a CRATE allowing metadata to be applied to historic records.

• AD Status
• Aircraft / Engine / Major Component Status
• Aircraft / Engine / Major Event History
• Installed Component Status (including LLPs, Time Controlled Parts, etc.)
• Last Done Next Due Maintenance Status
• Repair Damage Status
• Service Bulletin / Modification / STC Status

The 2023.1 revision includes:

• Multiple general edits to improve clarity and readability.
• Multiple changes to support implementation activities.
• Multiple element and attribute name changes to better align with other ATA specifications.
• Clarification of how versioning is done and utilization of version attributes.
• Clarification of the use of DateTime and Duration fields.
• Addition of multiple fields further describing major assets (aircraft, engine/APU, landing hear). and/or their attributes such as where installed, serviceability if not installed, etc.
• Addition of Event History allowing transfer of details of major events which occurred in an asset’s life/
• Clarification & modification of other content section and corresponding expansion of elements describing a document or data set.
• Addition of fields to support specific lessor transition lists.
• Modification of Part Position details to align with Spec 2400 – Allowable Configuration
• Addition of definitions from the Common Support Data Dictionary

Notes

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