ASA Member Bulletin - July 2016

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In this month's bulletin:


Government Affairs and Legal News:


ASA News!!

Greg McGowan Recipient of the 2016 Edward J Glueckler Award

Greg McGowan, Quality Committee voting member and prior ASA Board of Director is the 2016 recipient of the Edward J Glueckler Award. Michele Dickstein presented him with the award during the Monday evening awards ceremony at the conference. Brent Webb and Richard Levin shared with the attendees why Greg was chosen: his commitment to ASA and targeting strategic goals for the Association; his ability to consider the needs of all members regardless of the company size; and his willingness to explain the rules and restrictions and mentor others.


ASA Files Notice of Appeal regarding MAG 6 with Circuit Court of Appeals

As explained at the conference ASA has filed a Notice of Appeal with the Circuit Court of Appeals. A phone call explaining the appeal and the impacts of MAG 6 was held with the US members on 7/12/2016. There will be two additional calls scheduled support Central European Time Zone and Asian Time Zones. Emails will be sent next week with the following dates and times to members in those regions. Both calls will be done before end of July.

  • Monday July 25 at 10 pm Eastern Time (which is Tuesday at 9 am South East Asia, 10 am China, 11 am Japan).
  • Tuesday July 26 at 9 am Eastern Time (which is Tuesday at 2 pm UK, 3 pm Western Europe, 4 pm Eastern Europe and Middle East)


ASA Holds its Annual Conference

Insightful general session presentations along with 18 different workshops, laid the foundation for the ASA annual conference June 26-28, 2016. Over 300 people attended. Once again, AFRA and ASA held the meetings in conjunction with a shared general session, networking, breakout sessions and meals.


ASA2016 - Thank you to our Conference Sponsors

First Class Sponsors: Baron Group LLC; Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Business Class Sponsors: Air Parts & Supply Co. (APSCO); GA Telesis; Honeywell; KLX Aerospace

Frequent Flyer Sponsors: Aircraft Inventory Management & Services; East Air Corporation; MD Turbines; Par Avion; STS Component Solutions

Event Sponsors: A.J. Levin Company; AerSale, Inc.; Aero-Zone, Inc.; Global Airtech; Infinity Air Group/AllFlight Corporation; ITS-Infinity Trading; International Aircraft Associates; Inventory Locator Services (ILS); PartsBase, Inc.; Unical Aviation Inc.; VAS Aero Services


Mark your Calendars-ASA Board of Directors Call for Nominations & Election Coming Soon!

Any person who works for a regular ASA member that is in good standing is eligible for the Board of Directors. The position is for 2 years. There are quarterly meetings which are held at various locations near Director' facilities and/or commonly attended industry meetings. All costs associated with attending the quarterly meetings are borne by the Director.


If you are interested in being a Director or would like to nominate a person for the position, complete the nomination survey. Call for nominations will be open from July 14, 2016 through August 1, 2016.


The election will be for three Board positions currently held by Lee Kapel (TSI Aviation), Brent Webb (CAVU Aerospace) and Mitch Weinberg (International Aircraft Associates).


Quality Committee Meeting – Dallas, TX

The next QC Meeting is scheduled for December 1, 2016. Registration is required and all members are welcome to attend and inquiries can be sent to Tony Brigham. Aircraft Inventory Management & Services has once again agreed to sponsor the meeting, so a special thanks to them.


Drop Shipment Focus Group

ASA is seeking out members active in the quality committee to participate in a focus group to assist in defining the language for control of drop shipment for ASA-100 revision 4.  Please let ASA know of your interest by contacting Sam O'Connor at sam@aviationsuppliers.org.


ASA Announces Fall Regulatory Workshop Dates & Locations

We are working on finalizing specific locations and the 2016 workshop agenda. Watch for updates via email and on ASA's website at http://www.aviationsuppliers.org/Workshops.

  • August 25th - Dubai (AS9120 workshop)
  • September 8th - Miramar - Hilton Garden Inn
  • September 26th - Singapore
  • October 18th   Newark, NJ - Hilton Hotel Newark Airport
  • November 16th - Los Angeles, CA - Embassy Suites LAX North

Welcome New ASA Members!

ASA welcomes the following new member companies, bringing total membership to 573. For a complete list of ASA Members and for all other lists maintained by ASA, please visit the ASA Website. ASA would like to welcome the following new member companies:

  • AeroBase Group, Inc. - Melbourne, FL
  • PartsBase, Inc. - Boca Raton, FL
  • Hawaiian Airlines - Honolulu, HI
  • Jaitha Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. - Chalgrove, United Kingdom
  • Justice Bearing, LLC - Mooresville, NC
  • Transatlantic Spares & Services, Inc. - Lake Worth, FL

Illegal Use of ASA Logo - AeroMarket.com formerly aviationcreditref.com

An ASA member was recently contacted by this company regarding a “fraud report.”  This company is not a member nor do they have any affiliation with ASA. 



ASA-100 News!!

Congratulations to the following Companies on their ASA-100 Accreditation (AA) and Re-Accreditation (RA)

Newly Accredited Companies:

  • Beach Aviation Group, LLC - Vero Beach, FL

Companies showing commitment to Quality through Re-Accreditation:

  • Altum Aerospace - Sunrise, FL
  • Aviation Airmotive, Inc. - Miami, FL
  • Austin Aerotech, Inc. - Cedar Park, TX
  • AirGroup America, Inc. - Mars, PA

ASACB News!

ASACB Announces AS9120B Training

ASACB is pleased to announce the offering of its first workshop on AS9120B to be offered in the United Arab Emirates on August 25, 2016. The venue for this location is being finalized and information on the location will be made public within the next few days.


In keeping with the discussion of transitioning to the new AS9000 series standards the following information is critical to our certified organizations.

To ensure a smooth and timely transition, The International Aerospace Quality Group that owns the standards and defines its requirements have issued a document titled Supplemental Rule - 003. This document defines general and stakeholder rules. The stakeholders are Other Party Assessors (OP), Accreditation Bodies (AB), Authenticated AQMS Auditors (AEA and AA), Auditor Authentication Bodies (AAB), Training Provider Authentication Bodies (TPAB), Training Providers (TP), Certification Bodies (CBs) and Organizations seeking certification to the new standards. The most current revision of this document is linked in this bulletin for your review and informational use.

In order to comply with the supplemental rule, ASACB will be taking the following course of action:

  1. Notify each certified client of requirements for transition and transition audit process by August 30, 2016.
  2. Notify each certified client to get a written commitment for transition to the applicable 2016 edition of the applicable AQMS standard.  This written agreement must be received by December 1, 2016 to meet a deadline for submission of January 1, 2017 to ASACB's accreditation body ANAB.
  3. After June 15, 2017 all audits will be performed to new 2016 revisions of the applicable AQMS standards.
  4. Any client that will not transition prior to September 15, 2017 will have been contacted by ASACB to conduct a risk and mitigation analysis.  This will be completed to show ASACB is managing the transition by the deadline date for all its remaining clients.
  5. ASACB will ensure that all transition audits are completed by June 15, 2018.
  6. ASACB will not make a transition certification decision after September 14, 2018.  Any client that has not transition will be required to go through an initial stage 1 and stage 2 audit in order to gain certification and be listed within the OASIS database.

For clarification or questions concerning this information please contact Sam O'Connor Vice President Technical Services at sam@aviationsuppliers.org and/or by phone (978) 790-9370.