8130-3 Instructions: Major Revision is Open for Public Comment
March 21, 2025 2 Comments
The FAA has issued a draft revision to the instructions for completing 8130-3 tags. This draft revision is open for comment through April 21, 2025. The form is known in the industry as an “Authorized Release Certificate,” “FAA Form 8130-3,” and an “Airworthiness Approval Tag.”
This is a major overhaul of the guidance, and the draft guidance 8130.21J has been reduced to only 18 pages (including appendices). The existing guidance 8130.21H (change one) is 74 pages.
There is an obvious fear that some of the language that was added to correct past problems, may have been removed from this draft. With this in mind, we are especially interested in your comments about hazards and risks associated with the 8130-3 tag, and instruction language that mitigates those risks.
ASA plans to develop comments in response to the draft. We request that ASA members who have comments submit a copy of those comments to ASA’s General Counsel by April 14, 2025 so that ASA can incorporate your comments into the final industry comments.
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Hi Jason, the correction of an 8130-3 related to typographical errors within change H had specific requirements that needed to be in place within block 12 which change J does not have the same requirements. Does this mean that the corrected 8130-3 may be used as the release certificate and not both? In addition, block by block instruction contains the incorrect information as block 3 shall state FAA Form Tracking Number and the forms available for downloading only states Form Tracking Number, leaving out “FAA”. “This FAA Form 8130-3 corrects the error(s) in
Block(s) [enter block number(s) corrected] of the FAA Form 8130-3 [enter form tracking
number] dated [enter issuance date] and does not cover conformity/condition/release to service.”
The reissued form must be marked as such. Both forms must be retained according to the
retention period.
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