Maintenance and support management for type certification flight test of large civil aircraft

Abstract

Based on the flight test support characteristics of large civil aircraft, this paper summarizes and analyzes the research results and practical experiences of maintenance and support management of ARJ21-700 aircraft during its type certification flight test stage. These management experiences ensure the quality, safety, and efficiency of flight test; aiming at the problems occured during flight test support, this article presents some suggestions and advices for flight test integrated support to further integrate flight test support resources, improve flight test support efficiency, reduce the risk caused by human errors, promote type certification flight test of ARJ21-700 aircraft, and provide references for flight test maintenance and support of C919 large passenger aircraft and other civil aircraft. © 2014 Springer-Verlag.