| Branch | U.S. Air Force |
| Series | DAFI |
| Publication date | 2026-07-02 (0.2 years ago) |
| Status | Current |
| Proponent / OPR | AF/A3 |
| Source of record | AF e-Publishing |
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This instruction provides practical guidance to requiring activities for planning and conducting the acquisition of contracted air services, particularly with regard to identifying the need to designate contractor aircraft for operation as public aircraft or state aircraft and identifying risk acceptance authorities.
This publication has been revised and should be completely reviewed. Changes include modifications based on changes to the parent directive, DAFPD 10-36, and other applicable policies
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.
If DAFI 10-3601 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.