There is a very big issue here folks. It’s just being disguised by all this “Jensen on the AOC” and “Ansett Mark II” smoke and mirrors.
FSU - Most of what you say is accurate, except in one key respect.
You need to understand the key difference between “changing the company name” on an AOC, and “changing the company” on an AOC.
If a corporate entity merely changes its name, it remains the same corporate person notwithstanding the change. For instance, the corporate person whose ACN is 004 216 291 happens to have been called Ansett Airways Limited for a long time. That entity to could change its name (assuming its available) to anything it likes, but the entity would still be the same corporate person whose ACN is 004 216 291.
A company (or a natural person) “changing its name” makes no difference to what that legal person is authorised to do under an AOC issued to it. CASA assesses, and has grounds to assess, nothing. The same legal person continues to be authorised to do what it was always authorised to do.
An analogous situation would arise if you changed your name. You would be exactly the same person, but with a different name. The change of name would not change your authority under the licences/certificates issued to you.
“Changing the company” on an AOC is a nonsense. It cannot happen.
It would be like you walking into a CASA office and asking for your mate Fred to be substituted for you on your licences. “I’ve got a pilot’s licence and I’m selling it to Fred. Can you put his name on the licence, so he can exercise its privileges please?”
If CASA is going through an AOC application assessment process, that means a completely different corporate person from any of the existing AOC holders has applied for an AOC. The new applicant might be using bits of the old “Ansett” carcass to satisfy some of the requirements of the application, but make no mistake: the new applicant is not “Ansett”, Mark II or otherwise.