Transport Canada CARs, stated honestly
Navlyt maps manuals to FAA Part 135 today. Transport Canada CARs support is planned — here is what the CARs demand of commercial operators, and what 'planned' means at Navlyt.
Status first: Navlyt's clause-level mapping is live for FAA 14 CFR Part 135 and Part 91. Transport Canada CARs support is planned and not yet shipped. We put that in the first sentence because our product's one job is catching the gap between what a document claims and what is actually in place.
The Canadian Aviation Regulations organise commercial air service under Part VII — with Subpart 703 covering air taxi operations and Subpart 704 covering commuter operations. Like Part 135, they demand a company operations manual, defined training and checking, and records that prove both; the structure differs enough that a Canadian corpus is its own build, not a relabelling of the American one.
The method that will carry over is the one running today: parse the operations manual, map procedures to the requirements they answer, quote the manual verbatim as evidence, keep a qualified person in the loop, and export the trail as audit evidence.
What the CARs ask of a commercial operator
For 703 and 704 operators, the recurring audit surfaces are familiar to anyone who has run a Part 135 shop — a controlled company operations manual, training and checking records, and demonstrable operational control — expressed through the CARs' own structure:
- A company operations manual kept current and distributed to crews
- Training programs and competency checks with records to prove them
- Operational control and dispatch arrangements fit to the operation
- Maintenance control and records aligned with the operator's fleet
How Navlyt's approach will apply
CARs support means a Canadian requirement corpus with references at the subpart and section level, so a finding cites the CARs provision it maps to the way findings cite §135.21 today — quoted manual text, verified verbatim, dispositioned by a person before it counts.
What Canadian operators do today
Operators evaluating ahead of CARs support typically trial the pipeline on their manuals — citation quality is visible regardless of framework — and use the regulation-agnostic workflow now: document lifecycle, corrective actions with owners and dates, crew medical tracking, and evidence exports.
- Trial the analysis on your COM to judge finding quality directly
- Use document control and corrective-action tracking today
- Join early access — Canadian operators with audit dates set the sequence
Why the status stays on the page
A compliance vendor that oversells its own coverage has no credibility auditing yours. CARs support ships when the Canadian corpus meets the same verification bar as the Part 135 corpus — and until then, every page that mentions it says 'planned'.
Frequently asked questions
Is Transport Canada CARs support available now?
No — it is planned. FAA Part 135 and Part 91 mapping is what ships today. This page exists so Canadian operators searching for CARs tooling get a straight answer.
703 or 704 — which will be covered?
The plan covers commercial operations under Part VII with Subparts 703 (air taxi) and 704 (commuter) as the core, sequenced by the operators in the early-access conversation.
When will it ship?
Timelines are shared with customers and early-access partners rather than published as quarters we might miss. If CARs support matters to your operation, tell us your audit window.
What can a Canadian operator use today?
The regulation-agnostic layer: document lifecycle control, corrective actions with owners and target dates, crew medical expiry tracking, and PDF evidence exports. The CARs-specific clause mapping is the part still to come.
Will Canadian data stay in Canada?
Navlyt's infrastructure currently runs in Canadian data residency (ca-central-1). Ask us about residency specifics for your procurement review.
Related reading
Put your operation in the sequence
Tell us your subpart, fleet, and next audit — early-access partners shape the CARs corpus and see it first.