Scrapping and condemning

When repairable inventory items are worn or damaged beyond the limits authorized by the manufacturer, have exceeded their life limits, or are too expensive to repair, you scrap them.

If you plan to scrap inventory items, but must wait for a Certificate of Destruction or for a custody change, you can condemn the item first. Condemning inventory items cancels existing part reservations and prevents auto-reservation from reserving the condemned item for new maintenance tasks.

You cannot condemn kit inventory until you have removed all of the items that the kit contains. However, you can condemn the items that are included in a kit without removing them from the kit.

You can scrap inventory items without condemning them first. Scrapping changes the inventory condition to SCRAP, marks the inventory record as locked, and changes the location to SCRAP.

Before scrapping inventory items, you can attach the Certificate of Destruction to the Inventory Details record.

If you sent the item to a vendor for repair and then decide not to repair it, instead of paying to ship it back, you can scrap the item.

Batch class inventory cannot be unscrapped, but if you accidentally scrap an item of another class, you can unscrap it. In the case of an aircraft, an unscrapped aircraft is not returned to the exact same place in its maintenance program. For this reason, the permissions to scrap and unscrap aircraft or assembly class inventory are separate from the permissions to scrap and unscrap tracked, serial, or kit class inventory.

Scrapping is primarily done for rotable inventory. Unless marked as repairable, batch items are not tracked after they are issued and their removal during maintenance tasks isn't recorded.