Office of Inspector General Audit Report

<p>We publicly released our audit report on Air Carriers' Use of Aircraft Repair Stations. We found that airlines are increasingly outsourcing maintenance to repair stations. Despite the increase FAA concentrates its oversight of airline maintenance on work performed at the air carrier's in-house facilities. Discrepancies in U.S. and foreign repair-station operations went undetected at 86 percent of the stations we visited. The discrepancies included using improper parts and equipment and uncorrected repetitive deficiencies. Because of the poor documentation received and the lack of focus by foreign authorities on FAA requirements FAA is unable to determine if FAA-certified foreign repair stations meet FAA standards.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>