FAA Approved Manufacturer Maintenance Manuals

    The Aircraft Maintenance Manual (AMM or MM) is the A & P mechanic's bible. The FAA mandates that an approved Maintenance Manual must be used every time work is performed on an aircraft. For any given maintenance task, there is a specific MM to be used.
   In the Air Transit Authority (ATA) Maintenance Manual numbering system each of the major systems receive their own chapter number, and subsystems within each chapter receive their own sub-chapter number. This numbering systems allows a technician to quickly find the technical data needed for the job.

For example, if a technician wanted the maintenance manual reference for removing and replacing a VHF Communications Transceiver, he would go to Chapter 23-21-01 for the procedure.

Here's how it works:

23 - Communications
21 - VHF Comm System
01 - VHF Transceiver R & R

  The following is a list of the DC-10 Maintenance Manuals.

-1 Intro
-2 Tool & Equipment List
-5 Time Limits/Maintenance Checks
-6 Dimensions and Areas
-7 Lifting and Shoring
-8 Leveling and Weighing
-9 Towing and Taxiing
-10 Parking and Mooring
-11 Required Placards
-12 Servicing
-20 Standard Practices: Airframe
-21 Air Conditioning
-22 Auto Flight
-23 Communications
-24 Electrical Power
-25 Equipment/Furnishings
-26 Fire Protection
-27 Flight Controls
-28 Fuel System
-29 Hydraulic Systems
-30 Ice and Rain Protection
-31 Instruments
-32 Landing gear
 -33 Lighting
-34 Navigation Systems
-35 Oxygen
-36 Pneumatic Systems
-38 Water/Waste
-49 Airborne Auxiliary Power (APU)
-51 Structures
-52 Doors
-53 Fuselage
-54 Nacelles/Pylons
-55 Stabilizers
-56 Windows
-57 Wings
-70 Standard Practices: Engine
-71 Power Plant
-72 Engine
-73 Engine Fuel and Control
-74 Engine Ignition
-75 Engine Air
-76 Engine Controls
-77 Engine Indicating
-78 Engine Exhaust
-79 Engine Oil
-80 Engine Starting
-91 Charts