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Accountable Executive

Q1.  Who is the Accountable Executive?

The Accountable Executive is the individual having overall responsibility for a civil aviation organization. The CARs require that the Accountable Executive have the necessary financial and operational authority to act on behalf of the certificate holder, and to be at a level within the organization sufficiently high to exercise control over all certificates held.

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