PLT426: Maintenance Requirements
What code PLT426 covers, why the FAA tests it, and how to study Maintenance Requirements before your checkride.
Recall regulations - maintenance requirements
What this means for your checkride
The owner or operator of an aircraft is primarily responsible for maintaining it in an airworthy condition, including compliance with airworthiness directives. Each owner or operator must have the aircraft inspected as required, have discrepancies repaired between inspections, and ensure that maintenance personnel make the appropriate record entries showing the aircraft has been approved for return to service. Maintenance may be performed only as prescribed in the regulations, including Part 43.
Primary responsibility for keeping an aircraft airworthy rests with the owner or operator, and applicants must know that duty and the requirement to repair discrepancies.
Responsibility for airworthiness is not solely the mechanic's; the owner or operator is primarily responsible.
Where to study it
A code on your test report is an area of deficiency. An authorized instructor must review it with you and endorse that review before you take the practical test, and the examiner may revisit it during the oral. Study it until you can explain it out loud, not just recognize the answer.