Bose X please read from the book of words, no where does it say check for the last 3 years or take as read what the other company dealing with the Aircraft during its past life did, it says
M.A.710 Airworthiness review
(a) To satisfy the requirement for an M.A.902 airworthiness review of an aircraft, a full documented review of the
aircraft records shall be carried out by the approved continuing airworthiness management organisation in order to
be satisfied that:
1. airframe, engine and propeller flying hours and associated flight cycles have been properly recorded, and;
2. the flight manual is applicable to the aircraft configuration and reflects the latest revision status, and;
3. all the maintenance due on the aircraft according to the approved maintenance programme has been carried
out, and;
4. all known defects have been corrected or, when applicable, carried forward in a controlled manner, and;
5. all applicable airworthiness directives have been applied and properly registered, and;
6. all modifications and repairs applied to the aircraft have been registered and are approved according to Part-21,
and;
7. all service life limited components installed on the aircraft are properly identified, registered and have not
exceeded their approved service life limit, and;
8. all maintenance has been released in accordance with this Part, and;
9. the current mass and balance statement reflects the configuration of the aircraft and is valid, and;
10. the aircraft complies with the latest revision of its type design approved by the Agency.
(b) The approved continuing airworthiness management organisation's airworthiness review staff shall carry out a
physical survey of the aircraft. For this survey, airworthiness review staff not appropriately qualified to Part-66 shall
be assisted by such qualified personnel.
(c) Through the physical survey of the aircraft, the airworthiness review staff shall ensure that:
1. all required markings and placards are properly installed, and;
2. the aircraft complies with its approved flight manual, and;
3. the aircraft configuration complies with the approved documentation, and;
4. no evident defect can be found that has not been addressed according to M.A.404, and;
5. no inconsistencies can be found between the aircraft and the paragraph (a) documented review of records.
I myself am not a lover of this system, as it is so full of holes and has been left up to the individual companies involved to determine the state of play without sufficent guidance being in place, take a look at some of the Company approvals that have been approved for Aircraft types, some have been issued with Cirrus Piston Engined Singles and Twins below 2730 KG.
Well Cirrus have never and have no plans to build a Piston Twin, so ask me how a Regulatory body can get that so wrong??
Additionally some Companies have been forced to put every single Cessna Model on their approval, whilst others simply put Cessna piston Single and Twins etc.... this is down to a lack of guidance for each Surveyor involved with dealing with the applications.
My personal view is the UK lept into this first instead of adapting the year of grace other Countries did in implementing it, so a year down the line when the rest of Europe is up in arms over it all, there will be further changes to the requirements and hopefully with a dumbing down of some of the requirements.