| Branch | U.S. Air Force |
| Series | AFI |
| Publication date | 2026-08-21 (0.0 years ago) |
| Status | Current |
| Proponent / OPR | AF/A8 |
| Source of record | AF e-Publishing |
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This instruction has been substantially revised and must be thoroughly reviewed. Major revisi ons include changing office symbols to reflect Headquarters United States Air Force reorganization. Also, websites and terminology have been updated throughout. Processes have been incorporated to reflect new requirements for loaning aircraft from the AFR Component to the Regular Air Force component and for obtaining corporate level approval for high-cost repairs on damaged aerospace vehicles. Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle inventory reporting requirements have been updated in this revision. Attachment 5 has been revised to include a new purpose code identifier. Attachments 6 and 10-14 have been added to explain aerospace vehicle disposition processes and the required documentation
Publications state their own changes on page 1 — behind a PDF the official host will not serve to a search engine. This is that section, verbatim. It describes the edition above, not every historical change.
| Functional community | Publications | Which ones |
|---|---|---|
| Acquisition | 3 | DAFI 63-101 20-101, AFMAN 63-143, DAFPAM 63-128 |
| Maintenance | 2 | AFI 21-103 ACC Sup, AFI 21-101 ACC Sup |
| Materiel Management | 2 | AFI 23-101 AFMC Sup, DAFMAN 23-300 ACC Sup |
| History | 1 | DAFI 84-103 |
| Law | 1 | AFI 51-307 |
| Services | 1 | DAFI 34-101 |
10 publications in 6 other communities depend on this one, which Operations Support owns. Each community inspects its own publications; a dependency that crosses communities is owned by nobody, which is why this list normally does not exist anywhere. Built from the publications' own citations, so it reflects what we have read.
If AFI 16-402 changes, these are the documents that point at it. Extracted from the publications' own text, so it reflects what we have read, not a complete dependency map. Every publishing office validates its own document; nobody validates the seams between them.
Records in this branch carrying the same series and number — interim changes, guidance memoranda, and unit supplements. A copy stamped with one of these is a different document from the base publication.