CHAPTER 1
NAVAL AVIATION MAINTENANCE PROGRAM
(NAMP)
Most of the duties that AZs perform are in direct
support of the aviation maintenance technicians who
work directly in the aviation maintenance effort. Since
most of the duties and responsibilities of an AZ are
specifically outlined in the Naval Aviation
Maintenance Program (NAMP), OPNAVINST
4790.2, you should have a good working knowledge of
the NAMP. This chapter will concentrate on the
organizational and intermediate levels of aviation
maintenance that the NAMP describes. It is to activities
that perform these levels of maintenance that you, as an
AZ, will most likely be assigned. Since it is in the staff
divisions of aviation maintenance activities that AZs
are assigned, some of the important duties and
responsibilities of staff divisions, especially those that
an AZ might perform, are discussed.
NAMP OBJECTIVES
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Identify the
purpose of the Naval Aviation Maintenance
Program (NAMP).
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The objective of the NAMP is to achieve and
continually improve aviation material readiness and
safety standards through the optimum use of available
resources (money, manpower, and material
management). This objective is accomplished through
command attention, policy direction, technical
direction, management, and administration of all
programs that affect activities responsible for aircraft
maintenance.
As the basic document that governs the Naval
Aviation Maintenance Program, OPNAVINST 4790.2
establishes a standardized set of policies and
procedures for the management of all Navy and Marine
Corps aviation maintenance activities. Any directive or
instruction in conflict with the provisions in the NAMP
should be revised to conform with the NAMP.
OPNAVINST 4790.2 consists of five volumes.
Each volume describes policies, procedures,
responsibilities, and functions that may be applicable to
one, two, or all three levels of maintenance. These five
volumes are as follows:
Volume I—Organizational and Intermediate
Level Maintenance
Volume II—Depot Level Maintenance
Volume III—Maintenance Data System
Volume IV—Data Processing Requirements
Volume V—NAMP Standard Operating Proce-
dures
The NAMP, available in paper and on CD-ROM,
outlines the standardized organizational structure of all
aviation maintenance activities.
The continuous improvement of aviation material
readiness and safety through the efficient use of
resources is an objective of what program?
The NAMP, OPNAVINST 4790.2, has how many
volumes?
What volume of the NAMP outlines procedures
for organizational and intermediate maintenance
levels?
What volume of the NAMP outlines the Main-
tenance Data System (MDS)?
AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE
ORGANIZATION
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Describe the
organizational structure of aircraft mainte-
nance activities.
In most operating aircraft units or activities, the
aircraft maintenance department is the largest
department. Its primary efforts are to support the unit’s
mission of flight operations. The operations department
carries out the unit’s mission. In support of the unit’s
mission, the objective of the maintenance department is
to maintain all unit aircraft in a state of full mission
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