CAAC Calibration and Testing Commission Established as a Subordinate to the Airworthiness Department of the CAAC

In September, the CAAC’s Calibration and Testing Commission was officially established. With the 17 committee members (leaders and experts) from the Flight Standards Department of the CAAC, China Academy of Civil Aviation Science and Technology, China National Aviation Fuel Group Corporation (CNAF) and each airline, this unit is a direct subordinate to the Airworthiness Department of the CAAC. Liu Xiaojie, an investigator from the Airworthiness Department of the CAAC was appointed as the commission’s chairman and its secretariat is located at the CAAC’s Calibration and Testing Center (CTC), which is located at the Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering Corporation (Ameco Beijing). The target of setting up this unit is to propel the overall development of China’s civil aviation calibration and testing task and to offer better service to the safe production of all civil aviation units. The CAAC’s Calibration and Testing Center is a first class civil aviation calibration technology unit. Entrusted by the Civil Aviation Administration of China, Air China Limited set up the CAAC Calibration and Testing Center at Ameco Beijing in 2003 with investment from both the CAAC and Ameco Beijing. The target is to legally regulate China’s civil aviation calibration and testing task, to perfect China’s civil aviation testing management system and to provide reliable material guarantee for China’s civil aviation development. Currently, the CAAC’s Calibration and Testing Center, subordinate to Ameco Beijing, owns the certificate of approval by the laboratory of China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS) and the certificate, including 22 items of calibration norms, approved by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China. The CAAC Calibration and Testing Center has 350 more sets of equipments and facilities for both calibration and testing use. It mainly supplies calibration and maintenance service to SPEQs of aircraft, airports and ATC as well as the inspection and analysis service to related samples. Furthermore, it bears the civil aviation calibration and testing management and professional training tasks entrusted by the CAAC.