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DA Form 7648 is a Department of the Army form in the DA series. Title of record: QUARTERLY AIRCRAFT PROGRAMMING AND UTILIZATION FLYING HOUR REPORT. Function: quarterly aircraft programming and utilization flying hour report. The edition presently published bears the date 08/01/2008, with a status of ACTIVE. Physical extent is 2 page(s) and about 200 fillable fields.
Responsibility for content and revision lies with G-3/5/7. The prescribing directive is AR 95-1, which sets both the trigger for use and the disposition of the completed document. Entry is made by the named party or by the records clerk holding the file, with review and signature applied in the prescribed order.
Distributed formats: PDF. The layout is common to all of them; what varies is the method of entry. The pdf is the reference version. In the fillable pdf the entry areas are live objects that accept typing; in the printable version the same areas are inert and are filled by hand after printing.
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What the form asks for
- AIRCRAFT
- AIRCRAFTT
- AIRCRAFTT_1
- AIRCRAFTT_2
- AIRCRAFTT_3
- AIRCRAFTT_4
- AIRCRAFT_1
- AIRCRAFT_10
- AIRCRAFT_11
- AIRCRAFT_12
- AIRCRAFT_13
- AIRCRAFT_14
- AIRCRAFT_2
- AIRCRAFT_3
- AIRCRAFT_4
- AIRCRAFT_5
- AIRCRAFT_6
- AIRCRAFT_7
- AIRCRAFT_8
- AIRCRAFT_9
- AIRCRTY
- AIRCRTY_1
- AIRCRTY_2
- AIRCRTY_3
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Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 7648?
- QUARTERLY AIRCRAFT PROGRAMMING AND UTILIZATION FLYING HOUR REPORT
- Which edition is current?
- 08/01/2008
- Who is responsible for this form?
- G-3/5/7
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, PDF
Publisher notes
- 42-ITEM ONLY PRODUCED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA,