Looks To Measure Impacts Of Foreign Repair Station Certificate Ban

The Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) has launched a survey to measure the impact of the ban on new foreign repair station certificates.

Congress prohibited the FAA from acting on foreign repair station certificate applications submitted after August 3, 2008 because the TSA had not finalized repair station security rules. The ban is an unprecedented example of punishing industry for a federal agency’s inaction.  U.S. aviation companies are barred from tapping into rapidly expanding overseas markets, which is hindering job creation and growth at home.

“Three years into the ban, TSA still hasn’t issued its rules, so punishing us obviously hasn’t made the agency do its job any faster,” ARSA Executive Director Sarah MacLeod said.  “The maintenance industry and its workers are the real victims of a bad law and agency inaction.”
ARSA is asking repair stations to complete a brief survey detailing the impact the prohibition has had on jobs and revenues.  The survey results will support ARSA’s efforts on Capitol Hill to repeal the ban.

ARSA asks that each company complete the survey only once before October 14.

FMI: www.arsa.org