{"id":237897,"date":"2026-07-01T16:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kcaa-extends-aircraft-safety-inspection-period-amid-staff-shortage\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:57:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:57:01","slug":"kenya-kcaa-extends-aircraft-safety-inspection-period-amid-staff-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kcaa-extends-aircraft-safety-inspection-period-amid-staff-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: KCAA Extends Aircraft Safety Inspection Period Amid Staff Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has extended the validity period for aircraft certificates of airworthiness from one year to two years, citing a shortage of safety inspectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The regulator said the move is intended to ease pressure on its inspection teams as the number of aircraft registered in Kenya continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Under the new arrangement, aircraft will undergo certification every two years instead of annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">KCAA said the change is necessary to address limited&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607010473.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has extended the validity period for aircraft certificates of airworthiness from one year to two years, citing a shortage of safety inspectors. The regulator said the move is intended to ease pressure on its inspection teams as the number of aircraft registered in Kenya continues to grow. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":237898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,13396,6875,11334,37679,4688,430,257,7793,4672,9467,254,6221],"class_list":["post-237897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aircraft","tag-extends","tag-inspection","tag-kcaa","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-period","tag-safety","tag-shortage","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staff"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}