Type Certification Advisory
Your aircraft, cleared into Chinese airspace.
Kumond guides manufacturers through CAAC validation and type certification — from initial gap analysis to the day your Type Certificate is issued. Decades inside the regulation, spent on your behalf.
- Experience
- 20+ yrs
- Programs Advised
- 40+
- Based In
- China
Schedule of Services
Every stage of the file, covered.
Six workstreams, run together or standalone, depending on where your program already stands.
Regulatory Gap Analysis
We map your existing FAA or EASA type certification basis against CAAC's CCAR requirements and flag every delta before it becomes a schedule risk.
Validation Strategy & Basis
We define the validation basis with CAAC on your behalf, sequencing special conditions, equivalent safety findings, and elected requirements.
Means of Compliance Documentation
Compliance matrices, test plans, and substantiation reports drafted in the structure and language CAAC reviewers expect to see.
CAAC Liaison & Site Visits
We sit in the room. Technical meetings, document reviews, and on-site inspections are managed directly with CAAC on your program's behalf.
Bilateral & Import Coordination
Coordination across bilateral airworthiness arrangements and import approval procedures, kept aligned with your home-authority certificate.
Continued Airworthiness Support
Post-TC obligations — service bulletins, ADs, and modification approvals — tracked and filed so your certificate stays current.
The Validation Path
Six stages from application to Type Certificate.
- 01
Familiarization
Program review, certification basis audit, and an initial CAAC readiness assessment.
- 02
Application
Formal application filed with CAAC; validation basis and project schedule agreed.
- 03
Compliance Planning
Means of compliance defined stage by stage, mapped to CAAC's technical review milestones.
- 04
Document Submission
Compliance data, test reports, and manuals submitted in CAAC's required format and sequence.
- 05
Technical Review
CAAC review meetings and site inspections, with our team representing your program throughout.
- 06
Type Certificate
Findings closed, certificate issued, and continued airworthiness reporting handed to your team.
Track Record
Built inside the Chinese regulatory system, not around it.
Our advisory team has spent decades working directly with CAAC and its regional offices. We read the regulation in Mandarin, know the reviewers by name, and understand where CCAR diverges from FAA and EASA practice — often in ways a translated regulation text alone won't show you.
Fixed-Wing Transport
Regional & narrow-body programs
Rotorcraft
Civil helicopter type & supplemental programs
General Aviation
Piston, turboprop, and business aircraft
UAS & eVTOL
Emerging category validation strategy
The Team
Specialists who have sat across the table from CAAC.
Type Certification Lead
20+ years, ex-CAAC technical review
Means of Compliance Specialist
Airworthiness & flight test substantiation
Regulatory Affairs Director
Bilateral validation & import approvals
Continued Airworthiness Advisor
Service bulletins, ADs, post-TC compliance
Full team bios and program references are shared directly with manufacturers during the initial certification review.
Request a Certification Review
Tell us where your program stands.
Send a short outline of your aircraft, current certification basis, and target timeline for the Chinese market. We reply within two business days with an initial gap assessment.
- advisory@kumond.com
- Offices
- Beijing · Seattle