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Website can be found at http://aviationsuppliers.org/

Lists and Databases

The following lists are available on the ASA website:

ASA 100

The ASA Accreditation Program (ASAAP) is a 36 month audit program based on the ASA-100 Standard. In order to appear in this listing, an organization record must be active, have a Y in the ASA 100 field or ASA-100 in the FAA AC 00-56A field and must also have an expiration date in the future for the ASA Expiration and the FAA Expiration.

FAA AC00-56A

FAA Advisory Circular 00-56A establishes a civil aircraft parts accreditation system. This system involves voluntary industry oversight. The FAA strongly endorses participation in this system. FAA AC 00-56A lists ASA-100 as an acceptable quality system standard. In order to appear in this listing, an organization record must be active, have a value in the FAA AC 00-56A field, and have an FAA expiration date in the future. Additionally the Name field in the Shipping tab must not be blank.

ASA Membership Directory

ASA is a not-for-profit trade association, representing companies that buy and sell aircraft parts. Member companies include distributors, suppliers, surplus sales organizations, repair stations, manufacturers, air carriers and other companies that provide a service to the aviation parts supply industry. In order to appear in this listing, an organization record must be active, have a Y in the Member field and have a Member Expiration Date that is blank or in the future.

• A logged in user will see a link to the Membership Certificate from the detail screen for the organization where this user is listed as the primary contact.
  
• The organization details page will list the ASA logo for all members, and will list the ASA 100 and/or ASACB logos for organizations in these groups.
  
• A user may scan the QR code from the Membership Application to see the organization's current membership status.
  
• For an Associate Member organization to appear in the directory, ASA must go to ADMIN, MANAGE USERS, ORGANIZATIONS on the website and in the ASA DATA tab, set Member to Y, set Member Type to Associate and enter Expiration Date. Click OK to save changes.
  

NOTES for Membership Directory 

In the organization table:

1. MemberJoin: Is used to display in the membership list and the pdf certificate. This field is populated during the Sync using the field Search1 in the CUSTSEARCH table.
   
2. ASACBExpiration: Is used to display the ASACB Logo in the membership list for organizations with an expiration in the future. This field is populated during the Sync using the field Search6 in the CUSTSEARCH table.
   
3. MemberExpiration: This field shows the membership expiration; this is populated during the sync from the ALT2_Code_C field from the CUSTVEND table.
   

The Exemption List

Exemption 8696 enables qualified companies to obtain an 8130-3 tag for Class 3 Products. In order to appear in this listing, an organization record must be active, have a value in the FAA AC 00-56A field, have a Y in the Member field and have a Member Expiration Date that is blank or in the future. In addition, the Organization Name must not be blank.

Stolen Parts Directory

ASA strongly believes in the integrity and safety of the industry, and thus has created the first publically assessible Aviation Stolen Parts Database (Database) for use by all companies in the aviation community. If your company has been the victim of theft, help protect the industry from criminal activity and fraud by notifying your colleagues about the theft. Listing a part and searching for a part in the Aviation Stolen Parts Database is open to the public. In order to submit items to the Database, a police report must be filed and a copy must be submitted as part of the filing.

Exporting Information from the Lists

In order to download a CSV file of search results from any of ASA’s databases listed above (except the Stolen Parts Directory), click on the page for the directory or list you would like to export. Next, you can click on the EXPORT link to export the entire database to a CSV file. Or, you can click on the letters at the top to find an organization by alphabet, or type in a company name or address to search by those fields, and then click on EXPORT to only export the organizations in your search results. Once you have the CSV file, you can open the results in Excel.

Creating Friendly URLs for each Company

Many of the directories recognize user friendly URLs for the member. When a new member company is added to the site, a user-friendly URL has to be added using a tool provided in the admin site. To use the tool, do the following:

• Go to the admin site and open Navigator >> Manage Addons >> ASA

• Click on Create Directory Aliases

• If you want the user friendly URL to include a prefix, or sub-path, enter the Link Alias Prefix you want to use. For instance, if you want the link for ABC Company to be /Membership-Directory/ABC-Company, then

• Link Alias Prefix = "Membership-Directory"

When the tool runs, it will create (or recreate) the URLs for all the companies in the system, and list them so you know what the URLs will be for each.

Adding ASA Conference Sponsor Logos

To add ASA Conference sponsor logos to the conference website:

• Login and click ADMIN.
• Click on MANAGE ADD-ONS, ASA CONFERENCE, ASA CONFERENCE SPONSORS.
• You will see a list of conference sponsors here.
• Click ADD to create a new sponsor record.
• Enter the company name in the SPONSOR NAME field.
• Select the SPONSOR TYPE from the drop down list (Business Class, Carousel Event, First Class or Frequent Flyer) to determine the category where the logo will display.
• If you want to link the logo to the sponsor website, enter it in the SPONSOR LINK field. Make sure to enter the entire website URL: http://www.xyz.com.
• Upload the sponsor logo by clicking CHOOSE FILE in the SPONSOR IMAGE field. Then select the file from your computer and click OPEN.

--NOTE: Maximum height restrictions are applied to the logo as specified below.

• If you want to change the logo size, you can enter the number of pixels for the image width in the MAX WIDTH field.

--Note: The logo will maintain the same width/height proportions, and this will only increase the width of the logo up to the size where it reaches the maximum height allowed.

• To place the logos in each category in a specific order, user the ALPHA SORT ORDER field, where you will enter a for the 1st logo, b for the 2nd one, etc.
• Click OK to save the new sponsor record.

Maximum heights specified for the logos in each category are listed below:

• First Class - 190px
• Business Class - 135px
• Frequent Flyer - 125px
• Events - 135px

NOTE: If you want to adjust the logo size, use the MAXIMUM WIDTH field in the sponsor record.

Specs for Pentagon to Website Synch

For a detailed description click here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eVdrYU_8IqoqnxR_rxV60UYd1nDaEHlp4TUyVc5WJno/edit

Join Form Notes

• For information on setting up the join form, click here
• If a member joins between the 1st and 15th of the Month, the expiration date is set to the 1st of current Month. If a member joins between the 16th and end of the Month, the expiration date is set to the 1st of the next Month.
• After a user pays for membership, organization and contact information is immediately pushed to Pentagon.
• If user is joining as a regular member from an approved country, the account will automatically be listed as active.

• If user is joining as an associate member or is from an unapproved country, the account will be listed as pending. ASA must go to the Pentagon record for this user's organization and put Y in the member field and enter an expiration date. After the sync with the website, this member will then appear as an active member.
• To simulate the sync on the staging site, you need to go to ADMIN, MANAGE USERS, ORGANIZATIONS. Go to the ASA DATA tab and put Y in the MEMBER field and a date in the MEMBER EXPIRATION field. Click OK to save.