Abstracrt. Purpose: to define a complete and safe process of electronic document management.
Methodology. During the research, the following methods were used:
1) communication analysis;
2) functional analysis;
3) sabotage analysis;
4) synergetic analysis;
5) synthesis.
Scope of application. This work can be applied as an auxiliary research in the formation of hardware and software for the use of electronic document management.
Results. The results of this work are:
1) initial understanding of the main documents in the aviation industry;
2) the main elements of document management in aviation;
3) recommendations on electronic document management.
Conclusions. According to the results of the study, the following conclusions were obtained:
1) document management is a complex process related to both auxiliary production and main production;
2) one of the security measures in the aspect of document security is the backup and output of documents in material form.

Keywords: electronic document management, document management analysis, document management in aviation, document management standards, secure document management.