Continued Airworthiness Service Agreement (CASA)

The Continued Airworthiness Service Agreement (CASA) is the basis for secured airworthiness and product developments aimed at cost reduction for your Fokker fleet. Fokker Services is the Type Certificates (TC-) Holder of the F27, F28, Fokker 50, Fokker 60, Fokker 70, and Fokker 100 aircraft. We perform the duties and responsibilities of the Type Certificate holdership in accordance with the ICAO agreements and the JAA regulations. Fokker Services together with operators and owners of Fokker aircraft bear the costs associated with the TC holdership activities.

CASA information, continued airworthiness service agreement (PDF 1,64Mb)
CASA MEMBER LIST

As a CASA member you will receive all necessary support and information to keep your fleet in airworthy condition. The following services are included in the CASA program:
  1. All-operator messages (aom) (*), which are intended to rapidly alert operators with respect to fleet airworthiness issues and indicating actions and measures to be taken regarding these issues. These messages are also available via this web-site.
  2. Technical / Operational Notices (TON) (*), addressing airworthiness issues which are not a direct concern, but nevertheless require Operator's awareness. These messages are also available via this web-site.
  3. Airworthiness Recommendations Catalogue (ARC) (*), which provides an overview of all publications, issued by either Fokker Services or suppliers and which are recommended from an airworthiness standpoint, whether or not mandated by the Dutch Airworthiness Authority ("CAA-NL")
  4. All Aircraft Service Bulletins and Component Service Bulletins ("SB"), which will be issued by Fokker Services.
    For the purpose of this Agreement, SB is split into four (4) categories, i.e.: (reference is made to the Service Bulletin Introduction for a detailed description of these categories and the types of SB).

    (a) Aviation Authority of The Netherlands ("CAA-NL") mandated SB;
    (b) Recommended SB;
    (c) Operational Requirement;
    (d) Optional SB.


    For category (a) The Operator will receive the complete SB ("Standard Service Bulletin");
    For category (b) The Operator will receive the complete SB ("Standard Service Bulletins"), unless the technical content of the SB is significant dependant on Aircraft configuration. In this case the Operator will only receive the Planning Information section of such pro forma SB. The Accomplishment Instructions and Material Information will be provided on request ("Appendix SB");
    For category (c) SB will in principle be made available in the form as described for category (b). The Accomplishment Instructions and Material Information will only be provided subject to the purchase by Operator of the relevant modification ("Appendix SB").
    For category (d) SB will in principle be made available in the form as described for category (b). The Accomplishment Instructions and Material Information will only be provided subject to the purchase by Operator of the relevant modification ("Appendix SB").

  5. All Service Letters for F27, F50/F60 and F70/100 aircraft and all Notice to Operators for F28 aircraft which will be issued.
  6. Updates to the Service Experience Digest, which will provide data and background information on commonly experienced technical and operational in-service issues.
  7. Manual Change Notifications for all affected maintenance and operational manuals to the extent that these manual changes are recommended from an airworthiness point of view or result from the introduction of a modification mandated (*) by the CAA-NL.
    Note: the Manual Change Notifications do not constitute any documentation revision service as offered by Fokker Services separately.
  8. Revision services to the Airplane Flight Manual (AFM) for F50/60 and F70/F100 aircraft or (Airplane) Flight Manual (FM/AFM) for F27 or Flight Handbook for F28 aircraft and Master Minimum Equipment List ("MMEL") to the extent that changes to the AFM/FM or MMEL are recommended from an airworthiness point of view or result from the introduction of a modification mandated by the CAA-NL.
  9. Utilisation Data. The document containing the utilisation data will be issued twice a year and will contain registration and utilisation data for the Aircraft in commercial revenue service.
  10. Day-to-day Engineering Assistance on Maintenance, Operational and Service issues up to a certain maximum support hours depending on the aircraft type and fleet size.
  11. Maintenance Requirements documents, namely the Maintenance Review Board (MRB) and Maintenance Planning Document (MDP) for the F50/60 and F70/100 aircraft, including applicable revisions, and for the F27 and F28 aircraft applicable revisions to the Structural Integrity Program (SIP) Part 1 and the Corrosion Control Program (CCP).

* = Are also sent to non-CASA members.

Other than the products and services as mentioned above, CASA members also benefit from:

Every year all CASA members are invited to join the CASA Review Board Meeting. The objective of this meeting is to make and keep the CASA program, including the financial figures, transparent to the CASA members. Furthermore it enables Fokker Services to adapt the CASA program as much as possible to the requirements of the members. Twice a year all developments on the CASA program are published in our "CASA News Letters".

The CASA fee is depending on the aircraft type, the fleet size and the yearly aircraft utilisation.

Please contact us for additional information regarding CASA to Fokker Services.