How to Verify an EASA Form 1 or FAA 8130-3 Certificate Online

Every airworthy part travels with an authorized release certificate — an EASA Form 1 or FAA 8130-3. But a document is only useful if you can trust it. Paperwork can be lost, photocopied, or forged, and a forged certificate is one of the hardest risks to catch by eye. Here is how to verify one properly.

The old way — and why it's slow

Traditionally, verifying a certificate meant calling the issuing organisation, cross-checking approval references, and comparing the document against records — a process that can take days and still relies on trusting a scanned copy.

The Angad Verified way — seconds, on any device

Angad Aviation turns each certificate into a cryptographically sealed digital record. Verifying it takes three steps and no login:

• 1. Scan the QR code on the certificate, or enter its verification ID on our verification page.
• 2. Your browser checks the signature against Angad's published public keys — so you are not trusting our server, you are checking the maths yourself.
• 3. Read the result. A genuine, unaltered certificate shows green; a withdrawn one clearly shows REVOKED. If even one character of the certificate data or the original PDF has changed, verification fails.

Why this matters

Because the signature covers both the certificate data and a fingerprint (SHA-256 hash) of the original PDF, tampering is impossible to hide. And because verification runs against publicly published keys, it is independently checkable by anyone in the supply chain — buyer, auditor, or regulator.

Try it on our Angad Verified page, or request a quote for a part that ships with a certificate you can prove.