HKAR-21 Certification of Aircraft and Related Products, Parts and ...

HKAR-21 SECTION 1
SUBPART B
TYPE CERTIFICATES
Note:
The "type certificate" referred in HKAR-21 means the type certificate issued by the State of Design.
HKAR 21.11 Scope
This Subpart establishes the procedure for issuing type certificates for products and
establishes the rights and obligations of the applicants for, and holders of, those certificates.
Type certificates are however granted by accepting (validating) the certification approval
granted by the Authority of the State of Design as far as possible. For those aircraft types
certificated by the European Joint Aviation Authorities, European Aviation Safety Agency or
USA Federal Aviation Administration, the Director-General accepts that they are in
compliance with the basic requirements of the Hong Kong airworthiness standards. No
Additional Requirements or Special Conditions will be imposed.
HKAR 21.13 Eligibility
Any natural or legal person that has demonstrated, or is in the process of demonstrating, its
capability in accordance with HKAR 21.14 shall be eligible as an applicant for a type
certificate under the conditions laid down in this Subpart.
HKAR 21.14 Demonstration of capability
(a)
(b)
Any organisation applying for a type certificate shall demonstrate its capability by
holding a design organisation approval, issued by the Director-General in accordance
with Subpart J.
By way of derogation from paragraph (a), as an alternative procedure to demonstrate
its capability, an applicant may seek the agreement of Director-General for the use of
procedures setting out the specific design practices, resources and sequence of
activities necessary to comply with HKAR-21, when the product is one of the
following:
1 a very light aeroplane or rotorcraft, a sailplane or a powered sailplane, a balloon, a
hot air airship; or
2 a small aeroplane meeting all of the following elements:
(i)
single piston engine, naturally aspirated, of not more than 250 hp maximum
take-off power (MTOP);
(ii) conventional configuration;
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