CS-26 Issue 5 | ‘Helicopter crash-resistant fuel systems’ and ‘Information on cargo compartment fire protection capabilities’
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2954 was adopted on 29 November 2024. This Regulation amends Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/640, on additional airworthiness specifications for a given type of operations, and its Annex I (Part‑26) with respect to the following topics that EASA proposed in Opinion No 05/2024:
- Helicopter crash-resistant fuel systems;
- Information on cargo compartment fire protection capabilities;
- Runway overrun awareness and alerting systems;
- Conversion of Class D compartments;
- Clarification of existing requirements, including some requirements related to ageing aeroplane structures.
The objective of this Decision is to provide means to show compliance with the new requirements introduced in Part 26 regarding topics 1 and 2 and related guidance material. This Decision also amends some existing means to show compliance with requirements amended in Part‑26 regarding topic 5, and some related guidance material for consistency.
To achieve this objective this Decision amends CS‑26.
Note: the existing means to show compliance with the amended requirements regarding topics 3 and 4 do not need to be amended.
