{"id":30295109,"date":"2026-10-30T11:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/faa-form-8130-3-airworthiness-approval-tag-explained\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:47:48","slug":"faa-form-8130-3-airworthiness-approval-tag-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/faa-form-8130-3-airworthiness-approval-tag-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Form 8130-3: The Tag That Does Not Let You Fit the Part"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\r\n\r\n<style>\r\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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Eighteen months later the same actuator is bolted into an airliner carrying three hundred people, and everything about that is legal.<\/p>\r\n<p>The thing that makes it legal is a single sheet of paper, roughly A4, printed in a layout that has not changed in a decade: FAA Form 8130-3, the Authorized Release Certificate, universally known in the trade as the 8130-3 tag. It is the document that turns a lump of metal with a history into an article a mechanic can lawfully fit.<\/p>\r\n<p>It is also the most widely misunderstood document in the aircraft parts business, and the misunderstanding is printed in small type at the bottom of the form itself, where almost nobody reads it. In September 2025 the FAA pulled the whole thing apart and rebuilt it, which is a good moment to explain what the tag actually certifies &mdash; and what it very deliberately does not.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f8;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:26px 0 28px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.75\">\r\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><strong>The document:<\/strong> FAA Form 8130-3, Authorized Release Certificate, Airworthiness Approval Tag<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><strong>Two uses:<\/strong> an airworthiness approval for a newly produced article under 14 CFR Part 21, and an approval for return to service for a maintained article under 14 CFR Part 43<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><strong>Production instructions:<\/strong> FAA Order 8130.21J, <em>Completion of FAA Form 8130-3 under Part 21<\/em>, dated 25 September 2025, 18 pages<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><strong>Maintenance instructions:<\/strong> FAA Advisory Circular 43-9D, dated 22 September 2025, editorially updated 30 April 2026<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><strong>What it replaced:<\/strong> Order 8130.21H with Change 1, dated 11 January 2016, which ran to 74 pages<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><strong>European equivalent:<\/strong> EASA Form 1; a single form carrying both is a &ldquo;dual release&rdquo;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><strong>What it is not:<\/strong> authority to install the part on any particular aircraft<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The form tells you itself, and nobody reads it<\/h2>\r\n<p>Look at the bottom third of any completed 8130-3 and you will find a box headed <em>User\/Installer Responsibilities<\/em>. Its first line is the single most important sentence on the document.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;It is important to understand that the existence of this document alone does not automatically constitute authority to install the aircraft engine\/propeller\/article.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>FAA Form 8130-3<\/strong> &mdash; printed on every copy of the form, under the heading User\/Installer Responsibilities<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The box goes on to spell out the consequence: &ldquo;Statements in Blocks 13a and 14a do not constitute installation certification. In all cases, aircraft maintenance records must contain an installation certification issued in accordance with the national regulations by the user\/installer before the aircraft may be flown.&rdquo;<\/p>\r\n<p>In other words, the tag certifies the article&rsquo;s condition and its approval status at the moment it left the organisation that signed the form. Eligibility for a particular aircraft is a separate question, answered by a separate person, in a separate record. A mechanic who fits a tagged part and files the tag has done half the job. The other half is the installation entry.<\/p>\r\n<p>The FAA says the same thing in its own guidance, twice over and in almost identical words. Order 8130.21J: the form &ldquo;does not constitute approval to install the item on a particular aircraft, aircraft engine, or propeller but helps the end user determine the item&rsquo;s airworthiness approval status.&rdquo; Advisory Circular 43-9D, at paragraph 23.2.1: &ldquo;FAA Form 8130-3 return to service does not constitute approval to install a product or article on a particular aircraft, aircraft engine, or propeller.&rdquo;<\/p>\r\n<p>Three documents, one message, and a parts market that still largely treats the tag as a passport.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">One form, two completely different jobs<\/h2>\r\n<p>The reason the 8130-3 is confusing is that it is not one document. It is two, sharing a layout.<\/p>\r\n<p>Down the left-hand side of the signature area sit blocks 13a to 13e. That half is the <em>production<\/em> release: a new article leaving a factory, certified as conforming to approved design data and in a condition for safe operation. It is issued under Part 21, by an FAA inspector, an FAA-authorised designee, an ODA unit member, or a production approval holder operating an approved quality system.<\/p>\r\n<p>Down the right-hand side sit blocks 14a to 14e. That half is the <em>maintenance<\/em> release: an article that has been repaired, overhauled, inspected or modified, and is being approved for return to service under 14 CFR 43.9. It is issued by a mechanic, a repairman, a Part 145 repair station, or a Part 121 or 135 certificate holder.<\/p>\r\n<p>A used actuator out of a teardown carries a right-hand-side release. A brand-new actuator from the manufacturer carries a left-hand-side one. The form is the same; almost nothing else about the two situations is. Order 8130.21J is explicit that you may not mix them, listing among the things the form cannot be used for &ldquo;release of a mixture of production- and maintenance-released aircraft engines, propellers, or articles on the same FAA Form 8130-3.&rdquo;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 840 344\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block;background:#fff;border:1px solid #e2e7ee\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Diagram comparing the two uses of FAA Form 8130-3: an airworthiness approval for a newly produced part under Order 8130.21J, and an approval for return to service for a maintained part under AC 43-9D\">\r\n<rect x=\"0\" y=\"0\" width=\"840\" height=\"44\" fill=\"#0d1117\"\/>\r\n<text x=\"16\" y=\"28\" font-family=\"Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif\" font-size=\"14\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#ffffff\">One form, two lives &#8212; and two separate rulebooks since September 2025<\/text>\r\n<rect x=\"0\" y=\"56\" width=\"412\" height=\"36\" fill=\"#5C91FF\"\/>\r\n<rect x=\"428\" y=\"56\" width=\"412\" height=\"36\" fill=\"#3568e0\"\/>\r\n<text x=\"16\" y=\"80\" font-family=\"Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif\" font-size=\"14\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#ffffff\">NEW: produced under Part 21<\/text>\r\n<text x=\"444\" y=\"80\" font-family=\"Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif\" font-size=\"14\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#ffffff\">MAINTAINED: returned to service under Part 43<\/text>\r\n<g font-family=\"Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif\" font-size=\"13\" fill=\"#454e5e\">\r\n<text x=\"16\" y=\"120\"><tspan font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#0d1117\">Legal basis<\/tspan><\/text>\r\n<text x=\"16\" y=\"140\">14 CFR 21.137(o), 21.146, 21.316,<\/text>\r\n<text x=\"16\" y=\"158\">21.616 and 21.325(b) for export<\/text>\r\n<text x=\"16\" y=\"190\"><tspan font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#0d1117\">Who may issue it<\/tspan><\/text>\r\n<text x=\"16\" y=\"210\">FAA inspector, FAA-authorised designee,<\/text>\r\n<text x=\"16\" y=\"228\">ODA unit member, production approval holder<\/text>\r\n<text x=\"16\" y=\"260\"><tspan font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#0d1117\">Instructions live in<\/tspan><\/text>\r\n<text x=\"16\" y=\"280\">FAA Order 8130.21J, 25 September 2025<\/text>\r\n<text x=\"16\" y=\"298\">18 pages, replacing 74<\/text>\r\n<text x=\"444\" y=\"120\"><tspan font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#0d1117\">Legal basis<\/tspan><\/text>\r\n<text x=\"444\" y=\"140\">14 CFR 43.9, by persons authorised<\/text>\r\n<text x=\"444\" y=\"158\">to approve return to service under 43.7(b) to (e)<\/text>\r\n<text x=\"444\" y=\"190\"><tspan font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#0d1117\">Who may issue it<\/tspan><\/text>\r\n<text x=\"444\" y=\"210\">Mechanic, repairman, Part 145 repair station,<\/text>\r\n<text x=\"444\" y=\"228\">Part 121 or 135 certificate holder<\/text>\r\n<text x=\"444\" y=\"260\"><tspan font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#0d1117\">Instructions live in<\/tspan><\/text>\r\n<text x=\"444\" y=\"280\">AC 43-9D, 22 September 2025<\/text>\r\n<text x=\"444\" y=\"298\">(moved out of the Order that same week)<\/text>\r\n<\/g>\r\n<line x1=\"420\" y1=\"56\" x2=\"420\" y2=\"312\" stroke=\"#e2e7ee\" stroke-width=\"1\"\/>\r\n<rect x=\"0\" y=\"312\" width=\"840\" height=\"32\" fill=\"#f4f6f8\"\/>\r\n<text x=\"16\" y=\"333\" font-family=\"Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif\" font-size=\"13\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#0d1117\">Neither one is permission to fit the part. That takes a separate installation record, made by whoever installs it.<\/text>\r\n<\/svg><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Since September 2025 the two halves of the form have had two separate rulebooks. Diagram: Afterburner, MiGFlug\u2019s Magazine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sS1GkFWZX44\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:-10px 0 26px;font-style:italic\">The FAA&rsquo;s own briefing on the 8130.21J reorganisation, posted to the agency&rsquo;s YouTube channel.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">How 74 pages became 18<\/h2>\r\n<p>For twelve years the instructions for completing the form lived in FAA Order 8130.21H, issued on 1 August 2013 and amended by Change 1 on 11 January 2016. With that change folded in it ran to seventy-four pages and nineteen worked examples of the completed form.<\/p>\r\n<p>In March 2025 the FAA put a draft replacement out for comment, and the aviation parts industry opened it to find eighteen pages.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;This is a major overhaul of the guidance, and the draft guidance 8130.21J has been reduced to only 18 pages.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Jason Dickstein<\/strong> &mdash; President, Washington Aviation Group, writing for the Aviation Suppliers Association, 21 March 2025<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Dickstein also recorded what he called an obvious fear: that language added over the years to fix specific past problems might have been quietly dropped along with the page count. The Aviation Suppliers Association asked for an extension to the comment period, got one through 6 June 2025, and filed comments saying the draft would need further work and flagging what it believed were unintentional errors.<\/p>\r\n<p>The final order, signed on 25 September 2025, is still eighteen pages. But the missing material did not vanish. It moved house, and the move is stated outright in paragraph 1.1 of the new advisory circular.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The FAA has transferred the information regarding FAA Form 8130-3 from FAA Order 8130.21, Completion of FAA Form 8130-3 Under Part 21, into this AC.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Federal Aviation Administration<\/strong> &mdash; Advisory Circular 43-9D, Maintenance Records and FAA Form 8130-3 Return to Service, paragraph 1.1, 22 September 2025<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Three days before the new Order was signed, AC 43-9D had appeared carrying the maintenance half of the instructions. It also, at last, replaced AC 43-9C, the maintenance-records circular that an industry coalition had told the FAA in June 2017 was &ldquo;not current&rdquo; and failed to address the requirements of 43.9. The coalition had submitted a complete rewrite and asked the agency not to publish its own draft as written. Eight years later, the rewrite arrived.<\/p>\r\n<p>So the 2025 reorganisation is not a cut. It is a split, and arguably the right one: the people who fill in the left-hand side of the form and the people who fill in the right-hand side now each have a document written for them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Original, recurrent, and the moment a new part stops being new<\/h2>\r\n<p>One distinction in the new Order deserves more attention than it gets, because it is the hinge on which the whole used-parts trade swings.<\/p>\r\n<p>Order 8130.21J draws a line between an <em>original<\/em> and a <em>recurrent<\/em> airworthiness approval. The first issue of an 8130-3 counts as original when it covers new articles produced by a production approval holder that are still inside that holder&rsquo;s Part 21 quality system. Once the article has been released from that system, a further 8130-3 may be issued only after somebody has determined that it has not suffered damage or degradation affecting its airworthiness and that it remains airworthy. That second issue is a recurrent approval.<\/p>\r\n<p>It sounds like bookkeeping. In practice it is the rule that governs a part sitting on a distributor&rsquo;s shelf for four years, a part that has crossed three borders, and a part found in a crate during an inventory. The Order is specific about what the inspection has to establish for a used article: that it has not been damaged nor suffered noticeable degradation, such as degraded seals or o-rings, <em>since the approval for return to service was issued<\/em>. And where the part is sealed in packaging that cannot be opened for inspection, the authorised person must obtain objective evidence that the right inspections were done before signing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/dc-10-30-broken-up-kemble-part-out.jpg\" alt=\"A former MyTravel DC-10-30 being broken up at Kemble in the United Kingdom\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A DC-10-30 part-way through disassembly at Kemble, engines and wing panels already gone and the registration cut out of the rear fuselage. Everything removed here needs paperwork before it can fly again. Photo: Ken Fielding via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The trace is not the tag<\/h2>\r\n<p>Ask a lessor what keeps them awake about used serviceable material and they will not say the 8130-3. They will say the trace.<\/p>\r\n<p>The tag is a snapshot. It records a condition and an approval on one date, signed by one organisation. What a buyer actually needs is the history behind it, and for one category of part that history is a legal requirement rather than a commercial preference.<\/p>\r\n<p>Section 43.10 of the regulations deals with life-limited parts, defined as any part for which a mandatory replacement limit is specified in the type design, the Instructions for Continued Airworthiness or the maintenance manual. Remove one from a type-certificated product and you must control it by one of seven listed methods: a record-keeping system substantiating part number, serial number and current life status; a tag or record attached to the part; non-permanent marking; permanent marking; segregation with physical separation from eligible parts; mutilation; or another method the FAA accepts.<\/p>\r\n<p>Two of those are worth dwelling on. Mutilation, under 43.10(c)(6), &ldquo;must render the part beyond repair and incapable of being reworked to appear to be airworthy&rdquo; &mdash; a sentence that tells you exactly what problem the rule was written to solve. And 43.10(d) is the clause that makes trace travel: anyone who removes a life-limited part and later sells or transfers it must transfer the mark, tag or other record with it, unless the part was mutilated first.<\/p>\r\n<p>That is the regulatory skeleton under what the industry calls back-to-birth traceability: an unbroken documentary chain from manufacture to the present, cycle by cycle. For a life-limited rotating part in an engine, a gap in that chain is not a discount. It is the end of the part&rsquo;s useful life, because nobody can prove how much of it is left.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/axrHFHdn2RQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:-10px 0 26px;font-style:italic\">C&amp;L Aviation Group walks through the condition codes a buyer meets alongside the tag: new, overhauled, serviceable, as-removed and the rest.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The European half, and the single form that does both<\/h2>\r\n<p>Europe issues its own version, the EASA Form 1, Authorised Release Certificate. The layout is deliberately near-identical, and for good reason: for most of the last two decades the two authorities have been working to make one piece of paper do both jobs.<\/p>\r\n<p>The mechanism is the dual release, and AC 43-9D sets out exactly how it works. Aviation authorities in the EU recognise an 8130-3 for approval for return to service only from Part 145 repair stations or air carriers that also hold an EASA Part-145 approval and were rated for that article at the time. When the form is used to meet the terms of the Maintenance Annex Guidance under the Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement, it becomes a dual release, and the article is then eligible for installation on a US- or EU-registered aircraft.<\/p>\r\n<p>Mechanically it comes down to two ticked boxes and a sentence. Both boxes in block 14a are checked &mdash; &ldquo;14 CFR 43.9 Return to Service&rdquo; and &ldquo;Other regulation specified in Block 12&rdquo; &mdash; and block 12 carries a prescribed statement citing the shop&rsquo;s EASA Part-145 approval number. Only facilities holding both approvals, and located in the United States or an EU member state, may do it. Everyone else issues two separate forms.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/faa-form-8130-3-dual-release-sample.jpg\" alt=\"The FAA sample of a completed Form 8130-3 used for a dual release approval\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The FAA\u2019s own worked example of a dual release. Both boxes in block 14a are ticked and block 12 carries the EASA Part-145 statement. Image: FAA Order 8130.21H, Appendix A, Figure A-13 (US Government work).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The aeroplanes with no tags at all<\/h2>\r\n<p>Everything above assumes a type-certificated aircraft inside the civil system. A sizeable and noisy part of the fleet is not.<\/p>\r\n<p>For ex-military aircraft that hold a civil type certificate &mdash; issued under 14 CFR 21.27 for surplus aircraft of the Armed Forces, or 21.25 for the restricted category &mdash; the regulations contain a clause written specifically for them. Section 21.9(c) says that a person may not sell or represent an article as suitable for installation on such an aircraft unless the article was declared surplus by the US Armed Forces and was intended by them for use on that model. The parts supply for a warbird is, in other words, legally tied to the military stock it came from.<\/p>\r\n<p>For the larger group of ex-military jets flying on experimental exhibition certificates, there is no type certificate at all. An <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/l-39-albatros\/\">L-39 Albatros<\/a> on the US register usually sits in that category, and Part 43 does not reach it: 43.1(b)(1) excludes aircraft holding an experimental airworthiness certificate. What governs the aircraft are the operating limitations issued with that certificate, and what governs its parts is whatever the maintenance programme written for that specific airframe says. There is no Appendix A list and frequently no 8130-3 to be found. Owners of these aircraft build their own trace, from military records, overhaul shops and whatever documentation survived the type&rsquo;s service career.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Iwag02-FkY\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:-10px 0 26px;font-style:italic\">ODA training on the issuance of FAA Form 8130-3, aimed at the inspection unit members who actually sign them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What the tag is worth<\/h2>\r\n<p>Strip away the mythology and the 8130-3 is a narrow, precise instrument. It says: on this date, this organisation, which the FAA has authorised to say so, found this article to conform to approved design data and to be in a condition for safe operation, or found it fit to be returned to service after the work described in block 11.<\/p>\r\n<p>It does not say the part fits your aeroplane. It does not say the part is new. It does not say where the part has been. It is not a shipping document, and the Order says so in as many words. The questions a buyer actually cares about &mdash; eligibility, history, remaining life &mdash; are answered by the installation record, the trace file and the life-status record, none of which are the tag.<\/p>\r\n<p>Which brings it back to the actuator from the DC-10. The tag is what makes it saleable. The paperwork behind the tag is what makes it worth buying. And the entry a mechanic makes on the day it goes into the aircraft is what makes it legal to fly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: FAA Order 8130.21J, Completion of FAA Form 8130-3 under Part 21, 25 September 2025; FAA Advisory Circular 43-9D, Maintenance Records and FAA Form 8130-3 Return to Service, 22 September 2025, editorially updated 30 April 2026; FAA Order 8130.21H with Change 1, 11 January 2016; 14 CFR 21.9, 21.25, 21.27, 21.325, 21.331 and 21.335, and 14 CFR 43.1, 43.9 and 43.10, as published on eCFR; Jason Dickstein, Aviation Suppliers Association, 21 March and 7 June 2025; Aeronautical Repair Station Association, on the 2017 industry rewrite of AC 43-9C.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\r\n\r\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What is an FAA Form 8130-3 tag?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">FAA Form 8130-3 is the Authorized Release Certificate, Airworthiness Approval Tag. It is the document that accompanies an aircraft engine, propeller or article and records that an FAA-authorised organisation found it to conform to approved design data and be in a condition for safe operation, or approved it for return to service after maintenance.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Does an 8130-3 tag mean a part can be installed on my aircraft?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">No, and the form says so itself. Printed under User\/Installer Responsibilities is the line that the existence of the document alone does not automatically constitute authority to install the article. Eligibility for a particular aircraft is a separate determination, recorded by whoever installs the part.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What does USM mean in aviation?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Used serviceable material: parts recovered from a retired or disassembled aircraft, inspected, and returned to service rather than scrapped. USM competes with new original equipment parts and with PMA parts, and its value rests almost entirely on the completeness of its documentation.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is the difference between an 8130-3 and an EASA Form 1?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">They are the American and European versions of the same authorised release certificate, with near-identical layouts. A single form that satisfies both systems at once is called a dual release, and only facilities holding both FAA and EASA Part-145 approval, located in the United States or an EU member state, may issue one.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is back-to-birth traceability?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">An unbroken documentary record of a part from manufacture to the present, used above all for life-limited rotating parts whose remaining cycles must be provable. Section 43.10 of the regulations underpins it by requiring life status to be controlled and transferred with the part when it is sold.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why was FAA Order 8130.21H replaced in 2025?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The FAA split the instructions in two. Order 8130.21J, dated 25 September 2025, kept the production and export side under Part 21 and runs to 18 pages. The maintenance return-to-service instructions moved into Advisory Circular 43-9D, dated 22 September 2025, which also replaced the long-outdated AC 43-9C.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Can an 8130-3 be used as a shipping document?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">No. FAA Order 8130.21J lists the uses the form cannot be put to, and the first of them is as a delivery or shipping document. AC 43-9D repeats the point for the maintenance side. The form should be correlated with the shipment but is not itself the paperwork that moves the goods.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Can I fly in an L-39 Albatros?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. MiGFlug offers L-39 Albatros flights in Florida, California, Switzerland, Italy, Czechia, Australia and New Zealand. Details and prices are on the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/l-39-albatros\/\">L-39 Albatros page<\/a>.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What is an FAA Form 8130-3 tag?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"FAA Form 8130-3 is the Authorized Release Certificate, Airworthiness Approval Tag. 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