A DEHAVILLAND -8 WAS DISPATCHED IN NON COMPLIANCE WITH THE PLTS OPERATING HANDBOOK EMER CHKLIST OUT OF DATE.

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ACFT ARRIVED INTO MAINT WITH AN OPEN (INFORMATIONAL) WRITE-UP STATING THAT THE EMER CHKLIST WAS REVISION #5 WHEN THE CURRENT REVISION WAS #6. A CORRECT CHKLIST WAS NOT AVAILABLE AT BASE. MAINT PRODUCTION WISHED TO DEFER THIS AND I WAS NOT COMFORTABLE IN DOING SO. MAINT CTL WAS CONTACTED AND THEY FOUND THAT THE POH DID NOT LIST THIS CHKLIST AS A REQUIRED DOCUMENT ON THE ACFT. I SUGGESTED THAT RATHER THAN LEAVE AN INCORRECT CHKLIST ON THE ACFT; REMOVE IT IF IT WASN'T REQUIRED. I FOREWARNED THEM THAT THE ORIGINATING CREW WOULD PROBABLY SQUAWK IT NOT BEING THERE. STILL NOT IN AGREEMENT; I CALLED THE INSPECTOR FOR HIS INPUT. HE SUGGESTED THAT WE COPY A CURRENT CHKLIST FROM ANOTHER ACFT OF THE SAME MODEL AND INSTALL THAT IN THE BINDER. PRODUCTION DECIDED THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH TIME TO DO THIS. ONLY BECAUSE THE MAINT CTL DEPT HAD ALREADY ESTABLISHED THE FACT THAT THIS WAS NOT AN AIRWORTHINESS ITEM DID I DEFER THIS. I STILL DISAGREE WITH DISPATCHING AN ACFT WITHOUT DATE INFO. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: THE RPTR STATED THAT AFTER THE DEFERRAL WAS MADE SOME COOLER HEADS PREVAILED AND A CHKLIST WAS FOUND; AND AT SOME POINT THAT DAY; WAS ENTERED IN THE PLTS OPERATING HANDBOOK. THE RPTR SAID THE MEL WAS NO HELP AND IN FACT CONFUSED THE ISSUE.