This card identifies someone who works for an aviation operator that belongs to the Business Aviation Safety Consortium. It is issued by BASC, not by a government agency.
BASC is a nonprofit consortium. Member operators meet a shared safety standard and stay in good standing by keeping to it.
Verifying a card
The code on the front of the card is the one that checks anything. It opens the operator’s page in the BASC registry and shows whether that operator is currently a member in good standing.
The operator name printed on the card must match the operator named on the page it opens. If those two disagree, the card should not be accepted.
BASC registers operators, not individuals. To confirm the person in front of you, check that the photo and printed name match, and that the card has not expired.
Both are issued under the same operator’s membership and look alike. The band across the middle tells you which one you’re holding.
Issued to flight crew — pilots, cabin crew, and technicians when they’re traveling in a crew capacity.The band reads CREW MEMBER. The back cites ICAO Annex 9, Appendix 7.
Issued to everyone else at a member operator — ground technicians, dispatchers, schedulers, line service, and administrative staff.The band names the holder’s role. There is no Annex 9 language, because that provision applies only to crew.
It is an industry credential. Its use is in the business aviation ecosystem: FBOs, hangar and ramp access, host operators, charter clients, and insurance auditors.
Please let us know. Send the certificate number and the operator name printed on the card, and we’ll contact the operator to arrange its return. Don’t post photographs of it anywhere public.
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