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DoDI 4500.53 — DoD Commercial Air Transportation Quality and Safety Review Program

DoDI 4500.53 is listed as current Current
in the DoD Issuances catalog as of our last index refresh (2026-08-23). Status is mirrored from that catalog, re-checked weekly — every change is logged. Note: its publication date is 2021-05-07 — 5.3 years old — so check for newer interim changes before citing it.

Branch	Department of Defense
Series	DoDI
Publication date	2021-05-07 (5.3 years ago)
Status	Current
Proponent / OPR	USW(A&S)
Source of record	DoD Issuances

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If DoDI 4500.53 changes, who else is affected

Functional community	Publications	Which ones
Operations	4	AFI 10-3503, AFI 10-4301V3, DAFI 10-3601, AMCI 10-402
Transportation	2	DAFI 24-602V1, DAFPD 24-6

6 publications in 2 other communities depend on this one. 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.

Publications that cite DoDI 4500.53

AFI 10-3503 — Personnel Parachute Program Current 16 mentions
AFI 10-4301V3 — Air Advising Operations Current 3 mentions
DAFI 10-3601 — Procedures for Contracted Air Operations for Training Support Current 2 mentions
DAFI 24-602V1 — Passenger Movement Current 2 mentions
DAFI 62-601 — Airworthiness Current 2 mentions
HAFMD 1-38 — Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics, Engineering and Force Protection Current 2 mentions
AMCI 10-402 — Civil Reserve Air Fleet Current 1 mention
CFETP 2T0X1 — Traffic Management Current 1 mention
DAFPD 24-6 — Distribution and Traffic Management Current 1 mention

If DoDI 4500.53 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.

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Nearby in the DoDI series

DoDI 4245.16 — Joint Production Accelerator Cell Current
DoDI 4500.36 — Acquisition, Management, and Use of Non-Tactical Vehicles Current
DoDI 4500.43 — Operational Support Airlift Current
DoDI 4500.56 — Use of Government Aircraft and Air Travel Current
DoDI 4500.57 — Transportation and Traffic Management Current

This is an unofficial index built from the public catalog. The controlling copy is always the one on DoD Issuances — verify there before citing DoDI 4500.53 in an official product.