No.  Not yet!

Although AS9100C was issued in January, the Aerospace Organizations that control registration to AS have stated that no certificates can be issued to the C version of the standard until they declare.  The problem is that they also want to change the way the standard is audited.  That is controlled by AS9101 currently revision C – AS9101C.  The D version is in a draft (as of Sept 2009) but until it too is released it will not be possible to conduct audits to AS9100C.  There are also substantial changes to AS9101 expected in the D version.  It is expected that the detailed and time consuming checklist is to be removed and that a process “effectiveness” assessment  is going to be introduced.  All of the changes necessitates that even after AS9101D is formally issued, training will be necessary to bring auditors up to speed with the new standard and the auditing approach.  That too will take time.  In an attempt to increase consistency and reliability of the auditing process, sanctioned training is to be introduced.  One organization has been commissioned to generate training material which will then be presented more widely to all AS auditors.  Although this sanctioned training process has already been started, this too will delay the ability of registrars to be able to audit to the new standard.  Best guesses are the moment are “about the end of the first quarter of 2010″.

You can of course update your QMS to the requirements of the new standard at any time.  You must make sure you don”t take out any AS9100B requirements unless you are certain your next audit can be to the C version.  And you should beware of the problems of mixing the requirements of both standards and ending up with a mess.  Careful and precise cross referencing should resolve this issue.   Finally, there is no real advantage in doing this now.