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Old 6th September 2009 | 07:43
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Miles Gustaph
 
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From: Behind a dusty desk, and in some really hot, dusty, wet and cold places subject to who is paying the bill. But mostly Gods own land.
In the EASA zone:

All parts fitted to an aircraft must have tractability and an appropriate certification. In the case of Aircraft General Spares, I.E. non special bolts, screws and o-rings a certificate of conformity will do, other parts will require an EASA form 1 issued by an approved company.

The use of parts from a donor aircraft can be problematic. Unless a company is appropriately approved to work on the specific uninstalled component and then certify it/them components can only be removed as serviceable. In general either of the above can only be carried out by a suitably approved person and/or organisation.

The issue of aircraft spares is a long and colourful one with numerous cases of people ending up in jail for having supplied bogus parts that is parts that are not fit for aircraft.

I have generalised and simplified the issue as far as I could but would suggest that the mere fact that you asked the question means you are totally unqualified to do this and run a serious risk of meeting your local airworthiness authority with a police man, or worse still being sued and loosing everything you own.
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