Boeing supplier requirements · D6-82479

Boeing D6-82479, in plain English.

If D6-82479 has turned up in a contract or a customer's quality notes, you are looking at Boeing's Quality Management System Requirements for Suppliers — usually shortened to BQMS. It is not a quality standard in its own right. It sits on top of AS9100, AS9110 or AS9120 and says three things: which of them Boeing expects you to be certified to, what Boeing expects of that certification, and what else it wants that the standard doesn't ask for.

This page walks through all three. Written by a practicing aerospace QMS auditor, from Boeing's published document — paraphrased, not reproduced.

The short version

Find your appendix first. It decides which aerospace standard you need to be certified to. Boeing picks it, through the contract.

Your certificate is not the end of it. Section 2 expects things from the way you manage your certification — including passing Boeing's findings to your registrar and telling Boeing when you change registrar.

Section 3 is where the extra work is. Fourteen requirements beyond the standard, including a quality manual, immediate change notifications and validation of raw-material test reports.

Where it stands: as of 24 September 2026, Boeing's supplier site lists Revision K, dated 14 November 2025. The document dates back to 1999 and has been revised eleven times; Revision K added Appendix E. If you are reading this much later, check the revision on Boeing's supplier quality page before relying on anything here.

Step one

Which appendix is yours?

D6-82479 is a shell. The requirements that actually apply to you sit in an appendix, and Boeing determines which one and imposes it contractually. What you do to the product is what decides it.

Part	Standard	Who it is for
Appendix A	9100	Organizations that design, develop or produce product — including anyone who fabricates, installs, services, inspects or tests, re-identifies, assembles or kits, or outsources any of those
Appendix B	AS9003	Obsolete. Boeing does not recognize it for production approvals
Appendix C	9110	Maintenance, repair and overhaul services
Appendix D	9120	Distributors that buy, store, split and sell product without changing it
Appendix E	9120	Distributors of MRO and post-production parts, including repair management — new in Revision K
Addendum 1	9103	Variation management of key characteristics, when the contract calls for it
Addendum 2	9115 or CMMI	Suppliers delivering software, when the contract calls for it

The distributor trap

A distributor that kits, re-identifies, adds an inspection or test, or assembles is no longer a pure distributor as far as D6-82479 is concerned. Appendix D says so directly: those activities put you under Appendix A, which means 9100, not 9120. Appendix E draws the same line for MRO parts distributors, pointing them to Appendix C if they do work on the part itself. If your AS9120B certificate is the only one you hold, check what your people actually do at the bench.

Step two · Section 2

What Boeing expects from your certification.

Boeing recognizes accredited certification under the IAQG's certification scheme (the ICOP scheme, defined in AS9104/1A), and your certification body and certificate have to be listed in the IAQG's OASIS database. Having a certificate is the start. Section 2 then asks for things most shops never think of as quality-system work:

Keep the evidence. Your certificates, the full audit reports, every finding your registrar raised and the evidence that it was accepted and closed — on file or in OASIS, for as long as your contract's record-retention terms say.
Tell Boeing when you change registrar. In writing, to your Boeing supplier quality representative, immediately.
Give Boeing a way in. Your agreement with your certification body has to grant Boeing, accreditation bodies, IAQG oversight and regulators access to the CB's records about you.
Pass Boeing's findings to your registrar. Nonconformities from Boeing's own supplier evaluations, plus your quality and delivery performance data, go to your CB before or during the initial, surveillance, special and recertification audits.
Expect a special audit if Boeing downgrades you. If your approval status drops from Approved to Probation or Disapproved, you arrange a special short-notice audit with your CB to look at what went wrong and what it means for your certificate.
Share your OASIS data on request. Including the performance data your CB uses to set your audit risk category.

The one that runs the wrong way

Most quality paperwork flows from your registrar to your customer: here's my certificate, here's my audit. The findings requirement runs the other way — from your customer, through you, to your registrar. It is easy to miss for exactly that reason, and it is an easy gap for an auditor to spot when nobody owns it. Treat Boeing's evaluation reports as an input to your audit preparation, with an owner and a date.

And none of it limits Boeing. Recognizing your certificate does not stop Boeing auditing you itself, raising its own findings, or sending them to your CB.

Step three · Section 3

The fourteen things on top of the standard.

Section 3 is the part to read line by line against your own system. Grouped by what they ask you to do:

A quality manual — still

AS9100D dropped the requirement for a document called a quality manual. D6-82479 puts it back: a single documented source, called a Quality Manual, describing your quality system and referencing its documented information. If you retired your manual in 2016 because the standard let you, a Boeing contract brings it back.

Tell Boeing, in writing, straight away

Immediate written notice to your supplier quality representative and procurement agent of any change affecting your quality system's capability, inspection, conformity or airworthiness — and of the changes a certification body would want to hear about under ISO/IEC 17021-1, such as ownership, key people, location or scope. Separately: changes to your quality contact, and any change to your quality-system scope or to the requirements you've decided don't apply.

Choose your own suppliers against the aerospace standards

Distributors you use are selected on their ability to conform to 9120. Sub-tiers who fabricate, assemble, inspect, test, kit and so on are selected on their ability to conform to 9100. Your own locations that make product need a 9100 certificate with manufacturing in its scope, and your own subordinate distribution locations need a 9120 certificate.

Records the standard is vague about

Calibration records that carry the elements of clause 7.1.5.2 and the calibration results. Use of customer-designated and qualified sources, validated before release, with traceability back to the source. And every control activity in clause 7.5.3.2 addressed somewhere in your processes, not just the ones that suit you.

Don't just file the mill cert

Raw-material test reports are checked in full against your requirements. Then, unless Boeing's material specification or its approved sources document says otherwise, you periodically validate them by testing samples yourself or through an independent lab, at a frequency set by how that material provider has performed. Keep the provider's report and your validation result, traceable to each other. This is the requirement a small shop is least likely to have a process for.

Whatever else the contract names

When the purchase order calls for it, Boeing's commercial-airplane supplemental requirements — Form X31764 or D6-87282 — and any IAQG standard it names, such as 9102 for first article inspection, 9145 for APQP and PPAP, or 9162 for operator self-verification.

If it just landed on your desk

What to do this week.

Find the line in the contract or PO that invokes D6-82479, and note which appendix and which addenda it names. If it doesn't say, ask the buyer in writing.
Download the current revision from Boeing's supplier site. Older PDFs circulate on search engines and in customers' own attachments.
Take Section 3 item by item and write next to each one the procedure or record that meets it. The gaps show up fast.
Give Boeing's supplier evaluation findings an owner, and put “send to CB” on the checklist for every audit.
Write down the list of changes that trigger an immediate notice to Boeing, and who sends it. “Immediately” is hard to meet if nobody knows it's their job.
If you are a sub-tier rather than Boeing's direct supplier: none of this binds you directly. What binds you is your customer's purchase order. But your customer is being asked to judge whether you could conform to 9100, so expect the questions.

How JBird does it

Most of Section 3 is records you should already be able to find.

This page is advice whatever you use to run your quality system. But several of these requirements are the reason JBird has the registers it has: a calibration register that records results as well as due dates; an acceptance-authority-media register; supplier records that hold the terms you flowed down and how they reached each supplier; and a quality manual generated from the process map, so the “single documented source” stays current without anyone rewriting it.

Boeing Form X31764, explained AS9104/1A, explained AS9100D, clause by clause

Common questions

What people ask about D6-82479.

What is Boeing D6-82479?

D6-82479 is Boeing's Quality Management System Requirements for Suppliers, often called BQMS. It does not replace AS9100, AS9110 or AS9120. It says which of those standards Boeing expects a supplier to be certified to, what Boeing expects from that certification, and a set of supplemental requirements that go beyond the standard.

Which appendix of D6-82479 applies to my company?

Boeing decides and imposes it through the contract. Broadly, Appendix A (9100) covers organizations that make or modify product, Appendix C (9110) covers maintenance and repair, Appendix D (9120) covers distributors that do not change the product, and Appendix E (9120) covers distributors of MRO and post-production parts. Appendix B (AS9003) is obsolete.

Does D6-82479 require a quality manual?

Yes. Section 3 asks for a single documented source called a Quality Manual that describes the quality management system and references its documented information, even though AS9100D itself no longer requires a manual by that name.

Does D6-82479 apply to sub-tier suppliers?

It is imposed on Boeing's own suppliers. What reaches a sub-tier is what that supplier passes on in its purchase order. D6-82479 does require Boeing's supplier to select manufacturing sub-tiers on their ability to conform to 9100, so a sub-tier should expect to be evaluated against it.

What is the current revision of D6-82479?

As of 24 September 2026, Boeing's supplier site lists Revision K, dated 14 November 2025. Check Boeing's site before relying on any summary, including this one.

Sources and honesty

Where this came from.

Drawn from Boeing's own published documents, checked on 24 September 2026: Boeing supplier quality, Boeing's QMS requirements page, the BQMS frequently asked questions, and D6-82479 Revision K itself.

Boeing's documents are copyrighted and licensed to suppliers for internal use, so this page explains them in our own words and links to the originals rather than reproducing them. Your contract, and the revision it invokes, is what you are held to — not this summary. JBird is an independent product and is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Boeing Company, the IAQG, SAE or ISO.