---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 183.51"
title: "14"
number: "183.51"
heading: "ODA Unit personnel."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/183.51"
---

# §183.51. ODA Unit personnel.


Each ODA Holder must have within its ODA Unit—

- (a) At least one qualified ODA administrator; and either
- (b) A staff consisting of the engineering, flight test, inspection, or maintenance personnel needed to perform the functions authorized. Staff members must have the experience and expertise to find compliance, determine conformity, determine airworthiness, issue certificates or issue approvals; or
- (c) A staff consisting of operations personnel who have the experience and expertise to find compliance with the regulations governing the issuance of pilot, crew member, or operating certificates, authorizations, or endorsements as needed to perform the functions authorized.

## Notes

### Source

Source: Docket FAA-2003-16685, 70 FR 59947, Oct. 13, 2005, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 31 U.S.C. 9701; 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40113, 44702, 45303.

### Source

Source: Docket 1151, 27 FR 4951, May 26, 1962, unless otherwise noted.