Answer:
29 June 2000 – QPL-23460-19 was cancelled by Notice 1.
On the same day MIL-P-23460E (the spec that required the QPL) was cancelled and superseded by NASM 23460.
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Because the spec moved from the DoD to the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), the U.S. military no longer keeps an active QPL for these pins; any legacy QPL data were archived and the qualification function migrated to:
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the Qualified Products Database (QPD), which replaced paper QPLs for still-active DoD specs, and
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AIA’s own NASM 23460 Approved-Manufacturer list for industry use.
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What changed and why
| Date | Event | Practical effect |
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| 07 Oct 1992 | QPL-23460-19 issued (latest full revision). | Listed all manufacturers qualified to make MS 17984 → 17990 pins under MIL-P-23460. |
| 29 Jun 2000 | Notice 1 cancels QPL-23460-19 “without replacement.” | The DoD stops updating the list; the PDF is frozen for archive only. |
| 29 Jun 2000 | MIL-P-23460E likewise cancelled and superseded by NASM 23460. | Ownership of the spec moves from the Defense Department to the Aerospace Industries Association. |
| 2001-present | DoD rolls out the online Qualified Products Database (QPD) as the “real-time replacement for paper-based QPL documents.” Defense Logistics Agency | For specs that still require qualification, the QPL lives inside QPD. But because MIL-P-23460 was cancelled, no QPL entry can exist for these pins (the old file is only an archive). |
How qualification works today
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Defence / MIL contracts – Drawings such as NASM 17984 → 17990 cite NASM 23460. Contractors accept a Certificate of Conformance showing the pin meets NASM 23460 & NAS 1332 loads. There is no current DoD QPL number to quote; buyers simply verify the supplier’s test data.
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Civil aviation & MRO – The AIA maintains an Approved Manufacturer List for NAS/NASM hardware (accessed by subscription via myaia.aerospaceindustries.org). Catalogues often still say “approved on the QPL for NAS 17984-17990,” but that refers to the industry list, not the cancelled DoD QPL.
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Legacy paperwork – A CofC that reads “QPL-23460-xx, MIL-P-23460E” is still a valid pedigree; it just predates the 2000 hand-over. New certificates should reference NASM 23460 instead.
