A Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization (CAMO) or Airworthiness Management Company manages and checks the airworthiness of the aircraft.
This is achieved by, among other things:
to create a maintenance program;
to ensure that the maintenance at the right time is done properly;
to manage the approval of modification and repairs;
to ensure that all applicable airworthiness directives (ADs) are applied;
to ensure that all defects discovered during scheduled maintenance or operation are reported and followed up;
the data of the continuing airworthiness records and / or technical log are managed and archived;
to ensure that the mass and balance report (Mass and Balance) displays the current status of the aircraft.
There are Stringent requirements with respect to CAMO organization:
the quality,
the quality (and their effects),
the organization,
the staff,
the means of production and housing,
quality control,
quality assurance,
documentation,
the administration
The requirements that a CAMO must meet are described in European legislation EC2042/2003, and more precisely in Annex I (PART M) hereto. These regulations can be found on the EASA website.
In Part M, Subpart B 'Responsibilities' is to find which cases required a CAMO use should be made. In
Air Waterland CAMO performs this function with its partners.