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STANAG 3098
National authorities of NATO member and partner nations that ratify, adopt or implement STANAG 3098 and the AASSEP-1 aircraft jacking requirements it covers
STANAG 3098 is NATO's ratification agreement committing member nations to aircraft jacking pad seating and clearance requirements specified in AASSEP-1 Edition A.
STANAG 3098 is the NATO Standardization Agreement covering aircraft jacking: the common form of seating an aircraft's jacking pads must have, and the clearance space that must surround every jacking point so a jack can be positioned without fouling the airframe. This is Edition 11, promulgated 14 May 2014, superseding Edition 10.
A STANAG is the agreement by which NATO nations commit to implement a standard, not the technical specification itself. STANAG 3098's own text is short and administrative: an aim, one interoperability requirement in two parts, and the ratification, implementation and review machinery. The actual jacking pad and clearance requirements are specified in a separate publication, AASSEP-1 Edition A, which the STANAG names as the standard participating nations "agree to implement". Anyone designing an aircraft's jacking points, or the ground equipment that uses them, needs AASSEP-1's own text, not this cover agreement.
The stated aim is "to respond to the following interoperability requirements". In full, the requirement reads: "To ensure that aircraft are provided, at all jacking points, with: a. Jacking pads, which have a common form of seating; b. Sufficient clearance space to accommodate jacks, ensuring adequate clearances between the jacks and adjacent parts of the aircraft." Put plainly: every jacking point on an aircraft needs a pad built to a common seating form, and enough room around it for a jack to do its job without touching the surrounding structure. The STANAG also lists two civil standards for context under "Other Related Documents" - ISO 43 on aircraft jacking pads, and ISO 1464 on aerospace tripod jack clearance dimensions - without making either part of the ratified agreement itself.
STANAG 3098 binds nations, not suppliers. It is effective "upon receipt and ready to be used by the implementing nations and NATO bodies", and partner nations "are invited to adopt this STANAG". A nation's commitment becomes binding through ratification, which NATO records in the NATO Standardization Document Database (NSDD). Implementation is a separate, further step: the STANAG "is considered implemented when the provisions specified therein have been included in the national documentation concerned with reference to STANAG 3098". Nations are then invited to report their effective implementation using the form in Annex H to AAP-03(J); partner nations report their adoption using the form in Annex G to AAP-03(J). A supplier or aircraft manufacturer meets STANAG 3098, or the AASSEP-1 requirements it covers, only where a contract or tender says so
STANAG 3098 describes no certification scheme and no audit. What it describes is nations reporting their ratification and implementation status to NATO for the record; nobody is "STANAG 3098 certified", and the document never uses that language. Where an aircraft's jacking points, or the servicing procedures used on them, do get checked against AASSEP-1's requirements - drawings, inspection records, acceptance evidence - the assessor and the evidence required are set by the contract's own quality clause, not by this STANAG.
STANAG 3098 covers AASSEP-01, the publication that carries the actual jacking pad and clearance requirements. Nations report their implementation, and partner nations their adoption, using forms annexed to AAP-03. The STANAG also names two civil standards under "Other Related Documents" - ISO 43 and ISO 1464 - which sit outside our catalogue.
STANAG 3098 and the AASSEP-1 requirements it covers are followed in aircraft design and servicing work, not in a compliance platform: an engineer configures the jacking points to the required seating form and clearance, and a quality department retains the drawings, inspection records and servicing procedures that prove a delivered aircraft, or the jacking work carried out on it, matches those requirements and whatever the contract's quality clause demands.
What ComplyTrain does for that kind of work generally is give a defence supplier one auditable place to hold the design and inspection procedures, the training records for the people doing that work, and the evidence trail - non-conformances, corrective actions, document control - that a customer's quality representative or a government surveillance visit will ask to see.
ComplyTrain does not design an aircraft's jacking points, measure their clearance, or determine whether an aircraft meets AASSEP-1's requirements. That is aircraft engineering and maintenance work, carried out against the publication itself and the contract's own technical requirements.
Which STANAGs and Allied Publications actually apply to a given aircraft programme is set by the contract and the customer's quality clause, not by us. Browse the explorer to see what sits alongside STANAG 3098 and AASSEP-01, and talk to us about the evidence trail once you know which ones are in your contract.
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Only where a nation has ratified and implemented it, and it reaches a supplier only where a contract or tender invokes it. The document sets no NATO-wide effective date of its own.
STANAG 3098 is the NATO ratification agreement; AASSEP-1 Edition A is the publication that actually specifies the jacking pad and clearance requirements. Ratifying STANAG 3098 is how a nation commits to implement AASSEP-1.
No. STANAG 3098 describes nations ratifying, implementing and reporting to NATO, recorded in the NATO Standardization Document Database. It describes no certification or audit scheme for a supplier or a product.
The document states that this edition supersedes Edition 10 of STANAG 3098, but it does not itself describe what changed between the two.
No. It states the requirement in general terms - a common seating form and sufficient clearance space - and names AASSEP-1 Edition A as the publication participating nations "agree to implement" for the detailed specification.
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