Contact the aviation safety group

1. Aircraft and products
2. Organisations

Certification Manager Aircraft and Product: Jason Ashworth

Certification Manager Organisations: Adrian Duncan

Email: certification@caa.govt.nz

Aircraft Registration email: aircraftregistrar@caa.govt.nz

• Organisation, aircraft and product certification; entry control into aviation system
• Ensure new organisations, aircraft and products are rule compliant and safe
• Registration of aircraft
• Re-certification of aviation system participants
• Processing and approving certificates and other changes
• Processing and approving aircraft or product design change

• Investigation of accidents, incidents and occurrences
• Analysis to improve ongoing safety of system
• Ensuring the CAA responds to investigation findings appropriately
• Development of safety and regulatory responses to address safety risks (either existing, new or emerging)

1. Medical
2. Personnel and Flight Training

• Licensing of personnel
• Medical certification
• Setting flight standards for operations, pilot training, engineering standards and licensing
• Conduct of flight tests as required by the Civil Aviation Rules

• Focuses on the aviation sectors under the oversight the Aviation Safety Group which oversees most of the aviation system. The two notable exceptions are security and infrastructure – these sectors are monitored by the Aviation Security and Infrastructure Group.
• Contributes to the Authority’s overall surveillance function under the ICAO State Oversight System, Critical Element (CE) 7.
• Plans and conducts proactive activities to provide assurance that:
  • current certificates remain valid
  • relevant legislation is otherwise being met
  • aviation risks within the system are being identified and managed.