Airbus Out, Boeing In
They have their own safety regulatory bodies with bilateral international agreements on complementary standards.
The U.K. is currently part of the EU so falls under the EASA agency. When the U.K. leaves (or before) it will need to set up it’s own regulatory agency and there will need to be an agreement on standards between that new body and any market that planes fly into. On Brexit Day the U.K. will become a third party country and so the EASA will not have the jurisdiction to issue safety certificates or similar.
Even if the U.K. agency were to be set up now, by definition if there is “no deal” then there is no agreement between that agency and the rest of the world on complementary standards. “Self-certification” might work for getting a mortgage, but not in international air worthiness.
Edit: there might be a loophole where, for example, wings are manufactured in the U.K. and then sent to Hamburg or Toulouse to the parent company for certification. The question then would be, is the EU allowed to import non-certified aircraft parts?
Originally posted by Zigenare
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The U.K. is currently part of the EU so falls under the EASA agency. When the U.K. leaves (or before) it will need to set up it’s own regulatory agency and there will need to be an agreement on standards between that new body and any market that planes fly into. On Brexit Day the U.K. will become a third party country and so the EASA will not have the jurisdiction to issue safety certificates or similar.
Even if the U.K. agency were to be set up now, by definition if there is “no deal” then there is no agreement between that agency and the rest of the world on complementary standards. “Self-certification” might work for getting a mortgage, but not in international air worthiness.
Edit: there might be a loophole where, for example, wings are manufactured in the U.K. and then sent to Hamburg or Toulouse to the parent company for certification. The question then would be, is the EU allowed to import non-certified aircraft parts?
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