English–Chinese reference · Aerospace & UAV

ICA持续适航文件

Instructions for Continued Airworthiness are the documentation set that describes the maintenance, inspection, repair, and overhaul tasks needed to keep an aircraft or component airworthy throughout its service life. In technical publications, ICA appears as a distinct category of source data referenced by maintenance programs, repair manuals, service bulletins, and continuing airworthiness summaries, and it must remain consistent with approved design data throughout the product life.

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EnglishICA
简体中文持续适航文件
DomainAerospace & UAV

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Where this term appears

Translators encounter ICA in continuing airworthiness sections of maintenance manuals, type certificate data supplements, and repair station documentation. It appears when distinguishing mandatory continued airworthiness requirements from general maintenance guidance, and in cross-references to service bulletins or airworthiness directives. Localizers must preserve the document category label rather than rendering it as a directive.

Translation checks

A frequent error is translating “Instructions for Continued Airworthiness” as “airworthiness directives” or “continuous airworthiness instructions,” conflating a document category with mandatory airworthiness action. This causes maintenance documents to sound legally binding when they are not, or to blur the boundary between manufacturer instructions and regulatory requirements. Another mistake is abbreviating ICA as a proper name in the target language without explaining it.

Keep the term aligned across your files

Check procedure sequence, part names, limits and cautions against the supplied references. Applicable aviation or market requirements depend on the product and project pathway.

Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.

Related document experience

Published scope shows related industry experience; it does not confirm that this specific term was used or reviewed in the project.

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