CAMO:  Maintain your asset smartly

Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization

We manage airworthiness for you

Airworthiness is the fundamental requirement for an aircraft to be operated. Ownership and management of aircraft assets demand the fulfilment of numerous legal and technical requirements. With our CAMO (Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization) team, we are able to offer services supporting aircraft owners – in particular lessors and banks as well as VIP aircraft owners – in meeting these requirements

Lessors and banks – the largest customer group typically assigning airworthiness management related tasks to independent, approved CAMO's (Continuing Airworthiness Management Organizations) – often need more than just the aircraft's paperwork to be in order. Thus, we offer a range of complementary services which relieve aircraft owners of the numerous burdens associated with a change of operators. Based on its capability to put an aircraft on the temporary German register easily, for example, the CAMO team can provide all kinds of support necessary to perform a complete aircraft transition, including technical operation of the aircraft.

We know the challenges that aircraft owners are confronted with from plenty of previous projects with customers worldwide and hence are able to offer a solution for virtually every issue. Our CAMO is your reliable partner from the smallest of issues up to taking the lead on complex lease returns, transitions, aircraft purchases and end-of-life management.

What's more, a dedicated CAMO team for VIP aircraft puts us as a strong and experienced partner at the owners' side, relieving them of all hassles in complying with all the regulatory requirements applicable to their individual planes. 

Our CAMO service is unique: We are able to manage the airworthiness, perform the airworthiness review, issue flight conditions, release the aircraft with a Certificate of Release to Service and actually fly the aircraft

Dr. Dietmar Strohmeyer

Manager Airworthiness Management

Above all, our CAMO team ensures that the requirements issued by manufacturers and authorities are adhered to. This means that the documentation must match the technical status of the aircraft at all times – a task we manage as efficiently as no one else.

The CAMO team will not only look after the documentation – you can have the aircraft rolling onto your apron, ready for immediate operation. An airworthiness review, performed by specialized CAMO staff, ensures that the aircraft is in an airworthy condition and eligible for issuance of a Certificate of Airworthiness or Certificate of Airworthiness for Export. 

Lufthansa Technik CAMO is a certified EASA CAMO organization and is authorized to perform airworthiness reviews. It also holds several third-country authority approvals.

Aircraft Transition Experts

The easy way from A to B

Once an airline is no longer responsible for an aircraft, our CAMO team takes over legal responsibility for its airworthiness. The owner of the aircraft – a bank or a leasing company – is faced with different scenarios. For example, an aircraft is going to be be imported into or exported from the EASA region, or be transferred from country A to country B. Typical scenarios include:

  • A lessor has found a new lessee in a country with differing airworthiness regulations
  • A bank wants to bring an aircraft to a teardown shop to recover its usable parts
  • A lessor needs to repossess an aircraft at a remote station and fly it to a parking or maintenance facility
  • An aircraft owner wants to recover an aircraft after it suffered severe structural damage

The first step: we assign a temporary German tail sign to the aircraft – available at short notice and at unbeatable low costs. Then, an absolutely unique performance follows: we obtain a permit to fly and ferry the aircraft to any country a customer wishes. Upon request, we organize the flight plan, crew, fuel and all others items, and obtain the necessary authority approvals.

To comply with the authorities' requirements for - ‘airworthiness‘ - the aircraft has to meet its type design or a properly altered condition. Furthermore, the aircraft has to be in a condition for safe operation.

Dr. Dietmar Strohmeyer

Manager Airworthiness Management

CAMO for VIP Aircraft

Airworthiness at the highest level

To own and operate a VIP aircraft means the ultimate in mobility; owners want to get the best from their assets. Yet, a number of legal requirements have to be fulfilled to ensure the safety of the aircraft and to meet authorities' airworthiness regulations. Our CAMO Services for VIP aircraft support owners of private aircraft and governmental organizations in meeting these requirements – and at the same time maximize the availability of their aircraft. 

We are qualified to take on full accountability for the airworthiness of VIP and special mission aircraft – or just a part of it should the aircraft owner hold its own CAMO approval already.

Our services for a worry-free operation include:

  •     Maintenance program and AD/SB assessment
  •     Maintenance planning and control
  •     Weight & balance, documentation management
  •     Condition monitoring and reliability reporting

We also offer engineering consulting such as aircraft assessment or aircraft storage and a number of additional services to maintain the airworthiness at the highest level.

VIP Aircraft services

Our CAMO services for you

  • Management of Continuing Airworthiness
  • Airworthiness Review
  • Asset Management
  • Recovery of incomplete documentation

Approval to develop certified solutions as Design Organisation

  • Permit to Fly
  • Authority to approve flight conditions
  • Minor modifications and repairs
  • EASA Part 145 worldwide support for technical flights
  • Spare Part Management
  • End-of-Life-Management

Export Certificate in accordance with ICAO requirements

  • Cost-efficient interim German registration
  • Check Flight Manuals
  • Management of technical flights
  • Approved Parking and Storage Procedure
  • Compliance Check of OPS Requirements
  • Support of Lessors & Banks in Lease Returns and Purchase
  • Workshops for Banks and Lessors
  • Interim operator for STC implementation
  • Systematic Digitalization of documents
  • Product Engineering comprising 21J repair capability
  • Aircraft Recovery (worldwide)

Get in touch 

Contact

Dr. Dietmar Strohmeyer

Manager Airworthiness Management

dietmar.strohmeyer@lht.dlh.de

Lufthansa Technik AG | Hamburg, Germany