"psyshrike" wrote in message om...
"Blueskies" wrote in message . ..
"Steve Foley" wrote in message
anip



Anyone can reverse engineer the 'part' and apply for PMA for it. The feds will accept it if the process is good...

Do you have an example?

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-Thanks
-Matt

Try he
http://www.wencor.com/products/pmas.html
http://www.ainonline.com/issues/07_0...mapartp94.html

You, as a PMA 'Knock off' house, need to show how you reverse engineered the product. I think that many get the reverse
engineering process blessed through the FAA, and then they run the process on a number of similar parts. The OEM (TC
folks) do not like the PMA houses because they depend on the aftermarket business to keep things going. Even the OEM
folks, when they sell 'spares', have to show that they hold PMA authority for the part when they sell it...