An aircraft is not legally airworthy because it has been maintained — it is legally airworthy because its maintenance has been documented, certified, and demonstrated compliant with every applicable directive, service bulletin, and life limit in force for that specific tail number on that specific date. The distinction matters enormously when a regulator requests records, when a lessor conducts a lease-return inspection, or when an incident investigation team asks how an airworthiness directive that was closed six months ago was verified as complete. In each of these scenarios, the quality of your compliance management system — not the quality of your maintenance — determines the outcome. Sign in to OxMaint to implement audit-ready airworthiness compliance tracking across your entire fleet from your first session on the platform. Book a demo to see how OxMaint manages AD tracking, component life limits, certification records, and audit documentation simultaneously.
Airworthiness compliance is not an administrative function. It is the legal foundation on which every flight operates — and it requires a system built for the precision aviation regulators demand.
Airworthiness directives. Service bulletin status. Component life limits. Technician authorisations. Lease-return documentation. Regulatory audit packages. OxMaint tracks every compliance obligation for every aircraft in your fleet — automatically, continuously, and in the format that CAA, FAA, and EASA inspectors require on the day they ask for it.
Aviation airworthiness compliance spans five interconnected domains. Each domain has its own regulatory source, documentation standard, and evidence format. OxMaint manages all five from a single platform — ensuring that compliance records across every domain are current, connected, and audit-ready at all times for every aircraft in your fleet. Sign in to OxMaint to configure your fleet's compliance domains and activate tracking across all five simultaneously.
ADs issued by FAA, EASA, DGCA, and other national aviation authorities carry mandatory compliance status and must be actioned within defined grace periods measured in flight hours, cycles, or calendar days. Service bulletins carry varying compliance urgency levels from mandatory (mandated by AD) to recommended. OxMaint tracks every AD and SB against each aircraft's registration and type applicability — so new directives are automatically matched to the tail numbers they affect and compliance due dates are generated without manual cross-referencing. Book a demo to see AD applicability management across a mixed fleet.
Aviation regulations mandate that life-limited parts be removed from service before they reach their published limit — with zero tolerance for exceedance. Life limits are expressed in flight hours, flight cycles, calendar time, or combinations of all three. OxMaint tracks every life-limited component against its current accumulation — updated automatically with each flight cycle entered — and generates removal alerts with configurable lead times that ensure replacement is planned and parts are available before the limit is reached. Sign in to OxMaint to activate component life limit tracking for your fleet.
Every maintenance action on a certificated aircraft must be certified by a technician holding the authorisation appropriate to the task category and aircraft type. Certification lapses, type rating expirations, and category scope gaps create compliance exposures that regulators identify during audits and that quality escapes can expose in real time. OxMaint maintains each technician's full authorisation profile — licence type, category ratings, type ratings, recurrency requirements — and verifies authorisation at the point of digital work order sign-off before the record is accepted. Book a demo to see OxMaint's technician authorisation management for Part 145 operations.
Aviation parts regulations require that every component installed on a certificated aircraft be traceable to an approved production source — with the approved release documentation available to demonstrate that traceability. Traceability chains break when parts records are held in paper stores files disconnected from the aircraft maintenance record. OxMaint links every part installation to its receipt record, approved release certificate reference, and authorised supplier documentation — maintaining the complete traceability chain automatically from incoming inspection through installation and beyond. Sign in to OxMaint to connect your parts inventory to aircraft airworthiness records with full traceability.
A regulatory audit does not examine whether maintenance was performed — it examines whether compliant records demonstrate that compliant maintenance was performed. The audit trail in OxMaint is the automatically maintained, chronological, immutable record of every maintenance action, every compliance status change, every parts movement, and every technician certification decision — structured in the format that aviation regulatory authorities require and retrievable for any date range, aircraft registration, or compliance reference on demand. Book a demo to see OxMaint's audit trail and compliance package generation for a simulated regulatory inspection.
Aviation compliance requirements differ significantly across national regulatory frameworks. An operator whose fleet spans multiple national registrations must satisfy the documentation requirements of each applicable authority simultaneously. OxMaint supports all major regulatory frameworks with framework-specific compliance configurations, documentation formats, and evidence package outputs.
OxMaint supports FAA compliance tracking under 14 CFR Part 121 (air carriers), Part 135 (charter), Part 43 (maintenance), and Part 145 (repair stations). AD tracking follows FAA AD notification and compliance format. Technician certifications are recorded against FAA A&P and IA licence categories with inspection authorisation scope. Maintenance records comply with FAA Form 337 requirements for major repairs and alterations. Parts traceability records support FAA Form 8130-3 approved return-to-service documentation. Sign in to OxMaint to configure FAA compliance tracking for Part 121, 135, or 145 operations.
OxMaint supports EASA compliance under Part M (continuing airworthiness), Part ML (light aircraft), Part 145 (maintenance organisations), and Part 66 (personnel licensing). The platform manages CAMO obligations under Part M Subpart G — including AMP task control, AD compliance tracking against EASA ADs, and airworthiness review certificate management. EASA Form 1 documentation is linked to every parts installation record. Compliance evidence packages are structured to meet EASA Part M Subpart G and CAMCo audit requirements. Book a demo to see OxMaint's EASA Part M compliance configuration for CAMO and Part 145 organisations.
OxMaint supports DGCA compliance tracking under CAR-145 (approved maintenance organisations), CAR-66 (aircraft maintenance licence), and CAR-M (continuing airworthiness management). AD compliance follows DGCA AD circular format alongside mandatory compliance with corresponding FAA and EASA ADs where applicable. Technician licence categories are configured per DGCA CAR-66 scope definitions. Maintenance documentation standards follow DGCA requirements for Indian-registered aircraft with exportable records for DGCA inspection and audit purposes. Sign in to OxMaint to configure DGCA compliance tracking for CAR-145 approved maintenance organisations.
OxMaint aligns with ICAO Annex 6 (operation of aircraft) and Annex 8 (airworthiness of aircraft) standards that underpin national regulatory frameworks globally. For operators whose fleets span multiple national registrations, OxMaint's multi-framework compliance layer ensures that the same maintenance event generates compliant documentation for every applicable national authority simultaneously — eliminating the duplicate record-keeping burden that multi-registration operators previously managed manually. Book a demo to see multi-framework compliance management for internationally registered fleets.
| Compliance Obligation | Regulatory Source | Measurement Basis | Documentation Required | OxMaint Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mandatory Airworthiness Directives | FAA / EASA / DGCA / National CA | Hours, cycles, or calendar — per AD terms | Completion work order, tech sign-off, AD reference | Automated tracking |
| Service Bulletin Compliance Status | OEM / Mandated by AD | Varies — hours, cycles, one-time or repetitive | SB status per aircraft, completion evidence | Fleet-level dashboard |
| Life-Limited Part Tracking | Type Certificate Data Sheet | Flight hours + cycles + calendar (combined) | Part installation record, ARC, remaining life log | Auto-updated per flight |
| Overhaul and Inspection Intervals | Approved Maintenance Programme | Hours, cycles, or calendar per AMP task card | Task completion record, tech certification | AMP task library |
| Technician Certification Currency | Part 145 / CAR-145 / 14 CFR 65 | Calendar — licence and type rating expiry | Licence record, category scope, expiry date | Expiry alert system |
| Approved Parts Traceability | Part 21 / 14 CFR Part 21 / CAR-21 | Per installation — no time basis | ARC / Form 8130-3 / EASA Form 1 per part | Full chain maintained |
| Airworthiness Review Certificate | EASA Part M Subpart I / CAMO | Annual — per aircraft registration | ARC issue record, survey findings, CAMO sign-off | ARC cycle tracking |
| Quality and Safety Findings | SMS / Part 145 QMS / CAA requirements | Per finding — no time basis | Finding record, root cause, CAR closure evidence | Finding workflow + CAR |
A single view of every aircraft's compliance status across all five domains — ADs, component life limits, certifications, parts traceability, and audit trail completeness — updated continuously as maintenance actions are recorded. Compliance managers see which aircraft are fully compliant, which have approaching deadline exposures, and which have open findings requiring corrective action, from one screen without compiling reports from separate systems. Overdue items and approaching deadlines are colour-coded and escalated automatically to the responsible team members. Sign in to OxMaint to access the fleet compliance dashboard from your first session on the platform.
When a regulatory audit, aircraft sale, lease return, or insurance survey requires a compliance evidence package, OxMaint generates a structured document set — containing all maintenance events, AD compliance records, component life status, parts traceability records, technician certification references, and quality findings — for any specified aircraft registration and date range, formatted to the applicable authority's documentation requirements. What previously required days of technical records compilation is generated in under 20 minutes. Multi-aircraft packages for fleet-wide audit coverage are generated simultaneously. Book a demo to see OxMaint's compliance package generation for a simulated EASA Part M or FAA audit.
OxMaint's AD applicability engine matches new and existing airworthiness directives to each aircraft's type certificate, serial number range, and configuration — automatically identifying which tail numbers a newly issued AD applies to without manual cross-referencing. For each applicable AD, OxMaint calculates the compliance due date based on the aircraft's current flight hours and cycles, generates the work order for compliance action, and tracks compliance progress to closure. Fleet-level compliance forecasting shows which ADs are due in the next 30, 60, and 90 days — enabling maintenance planning to schedule compliance actions within operational windows rather than against regulatory deadlines. Sign in to OxMaint to activate the AD applicability engine for your fleet type certificates.
OxMaint maintains a complete, chronologically ordered, immutable digital aircraft logbook — every maintenance event recorded with the timestamp, authorising technician identity and licence number, regulatory reference, parts used, and findings noted, in a format that cannot be altered after sign-off without a logged amendment record. The digital logbook satisfies the regulatory requirement for contemporaneous maintenance records and provides the complete technical history that aircraft purchasers, lessors, and regulatory authorities require. For fleet groups, the digital logbook eliminates the physical transfer, storage, and retrieval burden that paper technical records impose across multiple bases. Book a demo to see OxMaint's digital aircraft logbook for mixed-fleet operations.
We had three aircraft with EASA registrations and four with national CAA registrations from two different countries. Managing AD compliance manually across all seven with different documentation formats for each authority was consuming our compliance manager's entire working week. After implementing OxMaint, the same manager now reviews a single compliance dashboard each morning, and the system generates authority-specific compliance packages for each framework automatically. Our last EASA Part M audit lasted four hours and produced zero findings. The auditor's comment was that our records were among the cleanest they had reviewed for an operator of our size.
Frequently Asked Questions — Aviation Compliance & Airworthiness Management
The aircraft was maintained. The question regulators, lessors, and investigators ask is whether the records prove it — in the format they require, at the moment they ask. OxMaint ensures the answer is always yes.
AD and SB compliance tracking. Component life limits. Technician certifications. Parts traceability. Immutable digital logbook. Automated audit packages. Multi-authority compliance. Active from your first aircraft registration.
