Annual Inspection:
Annual Inspection:
According to the FAA, every airplane is required to undergo an annual inspection : "no person may operate an aircraft unless, within the preceding 12 calendar months, it has had an annual inspection and has been approved for return to service by a person authorized by FAR 43.7 ." A period of 12 calendar months extends from any day of a month to the last day of the same month the following year.
To meet the above requirement every 12 months each aircraft owner is required to make inspect his airplane completely. The inspection accomplished must have at least the items of FAR 43 appendix D. Chapter 05 of each aircraft maintenance manual has many inspections checklists that meet the annual type inspection requirement.
It does not care that the inspection accomplished is not named "annual" itself by the manufacturer maintenance manual, but as I said before, must be one that inspect the whole airplane. The inspection may be named by the manufacturer for example: operation , letter check, phase 1 , etc. Whatever the inspectiion name is , the person approving the aircraft for release to service (IA) must verify and state in the logbooks that the inspection performed meet the annual inspection requirement.
Many manufacturers state in chapter 05 of the maintenance manual that such inspection(name of inspection) meet the annual type inspection required by the FAA.