It’s a Trap

Just like Star Wars’ Admiral Ackbar said.

If you are using the FAA’s Dynamic Regulatory System to look up your aircraft’s airworthiness directives (ADs), did you know you are using a system that’s not an official source?

FAA documents explicitly state that the DRS is not the “official system of record”. The official record resides with the Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR) for each document according to FAA records management programs.

The only official source of information about ADs is the Federal Register.

The LogAir.ai staff have developed software to search the Federal Register for AD data. Only in this way do you know you have the unassailable answer.

PS: Both the DRS and Federal Register now appear to be offline as far as AD searches go. Ah Gov’t shutdowns.

PPS: Somebody wisely pointed out that having our app search the canonical Federal Register was as removed as having the FAA’s DRS search the Federal Register. Quite true. Our app will however produce the query used to get the data so you can apply it to the Federal Register yourself if you so desire.

–paul