This archived overview describes the Director of Maintenance (DOM) function within a Part 135 direct air carrier. The carrier's DOM oversees the maintenance program, coordinates qualified maintenance providers, maintains required records, and determines whether maintenance work is properly documented before an aircraft is returned to service under the carrier's procedures and applicable regulations.
Jet Partners acts as a charter services arranger under 14 CFR Part 295, not as the direct air carrier or its maintenance department. Jet Partners does not maintain aircraft, determine airworthiness, release aircraft to service, assign crew, or exercise operational control. For an accepted charter, the properly licensed direct air carrier identified in the written proposal is responsible for maintenance, airworthiness, aircraft and crew assignment, and the decision to operate.
