Blackhawks on civilian registry

[BMLtech]

This issue seems to be coming to a head finally:
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federa ... b3f8d.html
The wheels at TC seem to grind slowly, and I'm curious on what basis the previous 3 blackhawks were certified, and who is responsible for the continuing airworthiness of these machines, Sikorski or some other entity?

[The Mole]

The Hawks are not certified anywhere. In the US operators can have their own type cert's essentially and other buy from those type cert holders. They adopt the military maintenance schedules apparently. The exemptions for parts reads something like , you can't install un airworthy part, the person installing the parts Is to insure their airworthy. You could buy Taliban parts but no one would of course....

In short it sound like a complete mess for paper work.

[BMLtech]

The Hawks are not certified anywhere. In the US operators can have their own type cert's essentially and other buy from those type cert holders. They adopt the military maintenance schedules apparently. The exemptions for parts reads something like , you can't install un airworthy part, the person installing the parts Is to insure their airworthy. You could buy Taliban parts but no one would of course....

In short it sound like a complete mess for paper work.

AS I see it, this is the crux of the matter for these ex-military machines. No civilian type certificate= no OEM or higher authority responsible for things like AD's, SB's, PMA's ,TBO's etc. The whole thing seems pretty wild. I could see a special flight permit for something like firefighting, but hauling around scores of police officers up and down the border day in and day out is something else. Can't say I'm surprised if other operators are steamed about it. Could the same job not be done by a 412 made in Canada?