Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site biomed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!wjh12!biomed!lagasse From: lagasse@biomed.UUCP (Robert C. Lagasse) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Service Records Message-ID: <132@biomed.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 09:44:05 EDT Article-I.D.: biomed.132 Posted: Tue Sep 24 09:44:05 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 08:06:23 EDT Organization: Mass. Gen. Hosp. - Dept. Biomed. Engineering Lines: 14 A question to all of you pilots: How good must the record keeping be for such a thing as how many engines a particular airframe has seen in the life of the craft? In other words, would someone have to maintain a complete set of service records for an airframe in order for it to be allowed to fly? For example, a DC-3 that was produced in 1939, was originally used for passenger service, went to Europe for the BIG ONE, returned from paratrooper service, was retrofitted with seats and upholstery, and currently being used as a commercial airliner. We're talking 46 years of service records here. Would the owner have them? What if they were lost and the airframe suffered severe damage in it's unknown past? Thanks for any response. Bob Lagasse