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Aviation, space, and defense supply chains adopting the applicable regional publication · aerospace quality standard

9102 — Aerospace First Article Inspection Requirement

9102 defines aerospace first-article inspection requirements used to demonstrate that planned production processes can produce output meeting design requirements under the applicable contract.

Current regional version shown in IAQG's February 2026 standards registerContractual applicability depends on customer, program, purchase order, and regional standard adoption

What the authority record establishes

9102 defines aerospace first-article inspection requirements used to demonstrate that planned production processes can produce output meeting design requirements under the applicable contract.

Contractual applicability depends on customer, program, purchase order, and regional standard adoption

The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.

Why it matters to this market

First-article tools need drawing characteristic, requirement, result, evidence, approval, change, and delta context while preserving customer-specific forms and rules.

Affected operating stages

  • Requirement Extraction
  • Characteristic Planning
  • Inspection Execution
  • Evidence Assembly
  • Approval
  • Change-Triggered Review

Capabilities to examine

Incoming, In-Process, And Final Inspection

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for incoming, in-process, and final inspection.

Supplier Qualification And PPAP

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for supplier qualification and PPAP.

Change Control And Configuration Traceability

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for change control and configuration traceability.

ERP, MES, And PLM Integration

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for ERP, MES, and PLM integration.

Affected buyer audiences

  • aerospace suppliers
  • quality engineers
  • customer quality representatives
  • first-article software providers

Implementation questions

  • Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
  • What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
  • Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
  • Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
  • How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?

Interpretation boundary

A completed software form does not establish contractual acceptance, design conformity, or a customer's approval.