ABSTRACT
This chapter began by listing a few reasons why a project might be closed or put on hold before its successful completion. An as-built record will be particularly important, yet most difficult to achieve, if there is any expectation that the customer will resurrect a cancelled project at a later date. Interrupted projects pose great difficulties, especially if work in progress has reached the stage when materials have been bought or some components are in various stages of manufacture. With any typical aviation project, a number of post-project activities remain, and people have produced their own project closure notice in which these late tasks are shown. The organization that spends billions of dollars designing and developing a new passenger airplane is unlikely to be so fortunate, yet here is a case when the post-project activities are vital because every aspect of the aircraft's design and development history must be recorded with critical care.
