MARPA Meetings and Conference

The 2021 MARPA Winter Meeting will be held as an online virtual meeting on January 13, 2021.

The Winter Meeting is an intimate opportunity to work closely with the Association and the Board of Directors on a topics of special interest to MARPA members. The meeting is held each Winter, typically at MARPA Headquarters, but will be held virtually in 2021 in light of continued health and safety concerns due to the global Covid-19 pandemic.

There is no charge for registering for this meeting, which is open for all active MARPA members. If you would like to propose future discussion topics for the Winter Meeting, please contact MARPA.

This meeting typically includes presentations by government and trade association representatives but due to this year's shortened duration will focus directly on a discussion of MARPA strategic objectives, initiatives, and plans.

Past topics have included items like Continued Operational Safety (COS), Safety Management Systems (SMS), Sequencing, ICA, FAA regulatory changes, FAA departmental restructuring, and Research Tax Credits.

MARPA has hosted the MARPA EMEA Conference in Europe since 2015 in order to bring together experts and leaders, manufacturers and customers within the PMA industry in a location designed to facilitate business between USA FAA-PMA manufacturers and the international air carrier community in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia in cooperation between the Modification And Replacement Parts Association (MARPA) and the US Department of Commerce International Trade Administration (ITA).

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 MARPA EMEA Conference originally scheduled to take place in Stockholm was converted into a virtual meeting, as will be the 2021 event. The MARPA EMEA Conference is expected to next be scheduled as an in-person meeting in 2022, with schedule subject to change.

The MARPA EMEA Conference expects to be held in Stockholm, Sweden in 2022, with dates to be announced. The MARPA EMEA Conference will bring together parts users (like airlines and MROs) and parts producers (like PMA holders) to learn more about how to integrate PMA parts into their systems to improve safety and reliability, as well as to save money.

The MARPA EMEA Conference is an excellent networking opportunity for customers and manufacturers alike! Operators and MROs have found that the reliability improvements, safety improvements and cost savings that can be discovered at this conference should provide tremendous ROI for the time invested. The meeting will include presentations by government and industry representatives on topics of interest to the community of aircraft parts users, as well as to manufacturers.

The MARPA Spring 2021 Virtual Meeting will be a an online virtual conference created to bring information and opportunity to the global PMA industry during the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic via presenters from multiple facets of the industry. The virtual meeting will be held online in Spring 2021, and will featured speakers presenting regulatory updates, strategies for saving money on maintenance costs, and improving reliability and safety using FAA approved PMA parts, among other relevant topics to help MARPA members and members of the aviation industry.