Aircraft Manuals

FlyMarines09

FlyMarines09

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When a person or air carrier purchases an aircraft, do all of the manuals come with it? Such as the AFM/POH, Abbreviated checklists, QRH, aircraft technical manuals, maintenance manuals, logs etc? I was looking for a CE-525 CJ manual just for giggles and only found 3 from flight safety. I know compainies can write their own manuals to fit specific needs but I was just curious how the manual thing works.
 
When we picked up a new aircraft from bombardier, one of the overhead bins was filled with manuals. There was a flight manual, qrh, performance manuals. Basically our company flight manuals were an abridged version of the manufacturer flight manuals.

Every aircraft came with their own set of manuals.

The technical and maintenance manuals didn't come with the aircraft itself as maintenance already had them and judging from looking at the electronic ones, if the plane came with a set of paper ones it probably could have substituted for the 1200lbs of water ballast that we carried.

Each aircraft had a maintenance package that was the last thing handed to us before we closed the door. Stuff for maintenance to put into our maintenance tracking software things like flight hours and cycles. Serial numbers / records for every part of the aircraft. Maintenance that was done by bombardier or parts already replaced by the manufacturer or the oem before the aircraft was delivered to us. And they threw in a new set of unwrapped gear pins and a full tank of gas.
 
Which specific CE-525 manuals are you trying to find? The three from FSI don't work for you?
 
No they'll work. The one I'm looking at (again just to get an idea of how the aircraft is operated) has normal, abnormal and emergency procedures for $40.00 from Essco. I was just wondering how it worked when an operator or person buys a used aircraft. Are all manuals still available from manufacturers whether or not the aircraft is still in production?
 
When you buy a plane, these manuals are a part of the "aircraft"; you should get them (excluding maintenance manuals as was mentioned above).

Again, which specific CE-525 manuals are you trying to find?
 
Citation 525 CJ or CJ1... I found one of them on e-bay. Should be here tomorrow. I wouldn't mind getting something on the Citation 650 or Challenger 604. Again, just something to read for fun while training- keep me motivated.

Thanks for your responses.
 
I am also curious about actual checklists used for say before takeoff, after take off, etc (the short one page ones) Does each company write their own based from the abbreviated checklist?
 
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