Aircraft Appliances

[thunt64]

Subject: Shipping Mechanical Equipment.
Used as fixtures for cargo and have been classified as aircraft appliances. Does installing, removing, and operating these appliances require A&P license? Let me take it one step farther. Would teaching someone how to install, remove, and operate the appliances require an A&P license? What is the reference in the FAR that says one way or the other?

[Denny of Oakland]

To answer your question you have to go to Title 49 Part 43. To remove and install appliance, instruments, and other stuff will require a mechanic rating (airframe) or as called out in section 43.7.

The rule say's you can do what you want under the direct supervision of an A&P mechanic in accordance with part 43.9.

Bottom line you cannot do what you are asking unless you have the proper rating as called out in section 43.3 and 43.7 as follows:

§ 43.3 Persons authorized to perform maintenance, preventive maintenance, rebuilding, and alterations.
(a) Except as provided in this section and §43.17, no person may maintain, rebuild, alter, or perform preventive maintenance on an aircraft, airframe, aircraft engine, propeller, appliance, or component part to which this part applies. Those items, the performance of which is a major alteration, a major repair, or preventive maintenance, are listed in appendix A.

§ 43.7 Persons authorized to approve aircraft, airframes, aircraft engines, propellers, appliances, or component parts for return to service after maintenance, preventive maintenance, rebuilding, or alteration.
(a) Except as provided in this section and §43.17, no person, other than the Administrator, may approve an aircraft, airframe, aircraft engine, propeller, appliance, or component part for return to service after it has undergone maintenance, preventive maintenance, rebuilding, or alteration

(b) The holder of a mechanic certificate
(c) The holder of a repair station certificate
(e) The holder of an air carrier operating certificate
(f) A person holding at least a private pilot certificate may approve an aircraft for return to service after performing preventive maintenance under the provisions of §43.3(g).
(g) The holder of a repairman certificate (light-sport aircraft) with a maintenance rating
(h) The holder of at least a sport pilot certificate may approve an aircraft owned or operated by that pilot