Aerospace Series - Commercial aircraft passenger seats - Reliability testing
STANDARD published on 1.2.2025
Designation standards: ČSN EN 4888
Classification mark: 319215
Catalog number: 520459
Publication date standards: 1.2.2025
The number of pages: 60
Approximate weight : 180 g (0.40 lbs)
Country: Czech technical standard
Category: Technical standards ČSN
This document specifies minimum reliability test requirements for sub-components of commercial aircraft passenger seats. Test procedures including in-service load cases regarding passenger behaviour for sub-seat components are specified. Abuse loads are excluded. This document is applicable to the sub-seat components such as but not limited to backrest, headrest, armrest, table, literature pocket and control elements.
This document does not apply to belts, Inflight-Entertainment, seat dress cover and cushions.
Additional environmental influences like temperature, radiation, gases and liquids may also alter the reliability of the aircraft passenger seats and their sub-components over their lifetime but are not taken into consideration in this document.
Tests on abrasion and surface durability are specified in EN 4860, EN 4864 and EN 4876