Focus on Engineering Judgment, Not Paperwork
DERs & DARs
Designated Engineering Representatives and Designated Airworthiness Representatives are the gatekeepers of aviation safety. DERs make findings of compliance on engineering data for aircraft modifications and repairs. DARs issue airworthiness certificates under FAA delegation. Both operate as independent consultants on behalf of the FAA, juggling multiple projects, complex regulatory requirements, and mountains of documentation.
The Challenge
Project Scoping Takes Too Long
Every new engagement requires evaluating regulatory applicability, estimating engineering effort, and assessing certification complexity. Without structured tooling, quoting a project means hours of manual research across FARs, advisory circulars, and precedent.
Documentation Is the Real Workload
The engineering judgment that DERs and DARs provide is the value. But the majority of time is spent organizing engineering data, tracking FAA correspondence, maintaining version control, and producing compliance documentation — not making engineering decisions.
Bandwidth Is the Bottleneck
The DER/DAR workforce is shrinking as experienced professionals retire. Demand for certification services continues to grow. Every hour spent on administrative overhead is an hour not spent on the engineering judgment that only qualified designees can provide.
How We Solve It
Rapid Project Scoping
Quickly assess regulatory applicability, estimate certification effort, and generate project proposals based on modification type, aircraft model, and applicable regulations.
Certification Tracking
Manage multiple concurrent projects with clear visibility into status, pending actions, FAA correspondence, and milestone tracking.
Engineering Data Organization
Structured storage for design data, test results, analysis reports, and compliance evidence with automatic version control and traceability.
Compliance Templates
Pre-built templates for common certification workflows: field approvals, STCs, major repairs, and major alterations — reducing time-to-first-draft.
What You Get
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