Ground support equipment and tools are indispensable in the maintenance, repair, modification and recovery for civil aircraft. The verification of ground support equipment and tools is one of the key steps in their development process. Before delivering the ground support equipment and tools to their customers, civil aircraft manufacturers should select certain parts of them for the adequate and effective verification to ensure that these equipment and tools can meet the needs of customers. The fourdimensional evaluation criteria for the verification of ground support equipment and tools were given in this paper. Three verification methods that could be used by civil aircraft manufacturers were summarized. The main characteristics of each method and the selection process were also analyzed. Operational verification is the most common and important verification method used by civil aircraft manufacturers. In view of operational verification, five key implementation elements of operational verification were analyzed, and four work steps and main work contents of each step for operational verification were introduced. Finally, some suggestions related to the verification of ground support equipment and tools were proposed.