South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA)
a) No (0) Mi-8 helicopters have been granted type acceptance by the SA Civil Aviation Authority,
(b) N/A
(b) One (1) type acceptance application was declined in February 2014.
(c) (d) The application was rejected because the aircraft design does not comply with any prevailing airworthiness design standards. Russia as the State of Manufacture requires that there be a working agreement between the CAA’s namely South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) and Russia CAA, the Interstate Aviation Committee Aviation Register (IAR AR). There was no agreement in place at the time.