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To answer your question about current data “is it considered current if you are within two revisions?” We have to go back the to the FAR rule that covers it, FAR 43 Section § 43.13 Performance rules (general).
(a) Each person performing maintenance, alteration, or preventive maintenance on an aircraft, engine, propeller, or appliance shall use the methods, techniques, and practices prescribed in the current manufacturer's maintenance manual or Instructions for Continued Airworthiness prepared by its manufacturer, or other methods, techniques, and practices acceptable to the Administrator, except as noted in § 43.16.
When the FAR’s do not have a word meaning in FAR 1.1 such as in the case of current data the FAA will refer to the dictionary as follows:
Current
Definition: occurring in or belonging to the present time; current events; the current topic"; current negotiations; "current psychoanalytic theories"; the ship's current position".
So in the FAA when they speak of current they mean present time (most recent) such as with type certificate data sheets (TCDS) revision 6. Six would be the current revision and anything less would not be current and not acceptable. Or current POH the most recent revision number would be current anything less again would not be acceptable. Having two revision less than the most current is not acceptable.
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