Export Certificate of Airworthiness

The European Union and the United States, on 15 March 2011, concluded an agreement on cooperation in the regulation of civil aviation safety. The agreement entered into force on 1 May 2011. The purpose of the agreement is to enable the reciprocal acceptance of findings of compliance and approvals, promote a high degree of safety in air transport and ensure regulatory cooperation and harmonisation between the United States and the EU as regards airworthiness approvals and monitoring of civil aeronautical products, environmental testing and approvals of such products, and approvals and monitoring of maintenance facilities.

According to the text of the agreement, from the 1st of May 2011, each new aircraft exported to the United States with an airworthiness approval issued by a Competent Authority of an EU Member State or EASA, will be accompanied with an EASA Export Certificate of Airworthiness called EASA Form 27.