The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2013

Preservation of documents, etc

171.—(1) A person required by this Order to preserve any document or record by reason of being the operator of an aircraft must, if ceasing to be the operator of the aircraft, continue to preserve the document or record as if the person had not ceased to be the operator, and in the event of the person’s death the duty to preserve the document or record falls upon the person’s personal representative.

(2) If another person becomes the operator of the aircraft, the operator mentioned in paragraph (1) or the personal representative must deliver to that person upon demand the certificates of release to service, the log books and the weight schedule and any record made by a flight data recorder and preserved in accordance with article 84(3) which are in force or required to be preserved in respect of that aircraft.

(3) If an engine or variable pitch propeller is removed from the aircraft and installed in another aircraft operated by another person the operator mentioned in paragraph (1) or the personal representative must deliver to that person upon demand the logbook relating to that engine or propeller.

(4) If any person in respect of whom a record has been kept by the operator mentioned in paragraph (1) in accordance with article 62(6) becomes a member of the flight crew of a commercial air transport aircraft registered in the Territory and operated by another person the operator mentioned in paragraph (1) or personal representative must deliver those records to that other person upon demand.

(5) It shall be the duty of the other person referred to in paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) to deal with the document or record delivered to as if the other person were the operator mentioned in paragraph (1).