{"id":"F2006B07799","name":"Airworthiness Directives 2004 - Revocation and Remaking - Cessna 207 Series Aeroplanes","slug":"airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-cessna-207-series-aeroplanes","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":50640,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2006B07799-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Airworthiness Directives 2004 - Revocation and Remaking - Cessna 207 Series Aeroplanes","content":"Airworthiness Directives 2004\n\nI, DAVID ALAN VILLIERS, delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety\n\nAuthority, acting under subregulation 39.001 (1) of the Civil\n\nAviation Safety Regulations 1998:\n\n(a) revoke the Airworthiness Directives mentioned in\n\nSchedule 1; and\n\n(b) make, as separate instruments, each Airworthiness\n\nDirective mentioned in Schedule 1 and attached.\n\n![](image.001.png)\n\nDavid Villiers\n\nDelegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority\n\n20 December 2004\n\nNote: Each attached Airworthiness Directive is being re-made in exactly the\n\nsame form as appears in the latest published edition of the Directive.\n\n  \nSchedule 1 Revocation and Remaking of\n\nAirworthiness Directives\n\nCessna 207 Series Aeroplanes\n\nAD Name AD Number\n\nControl Systems AD/CESSNA 207/1\n\nFlap Actuator - CANCELLED AD/CESSNA 207/2\n\nAuxiliary Fuel Pump Electrical System AD/CESSNA 207/3\n\nExhaust Manifold Heat Exchanger AD/CESSNA 207/4\n\nFront Seat Restraint Installations AD/CESSNA 207/5\n\nAlternator Earth Lead AD/CESSNA 207/6\n\nAft Tailcone Assembly AD/CESSNA 207/7 Amdt 2\n\nRight Hand Wing Rear Spar AD/CESSNA 207/8\n\nNose Landing Gear - CANCELLED AD/CESSNA 207/9\n\nFuel Quantity Placard AD/CESSNA 207/10\n\nRudder Trim Chain AD/CESSNA 207/11\n\nWing Flap Actuator Ball Nut Assemblies AD/CESSNA 207/12\n\nTurbocharger Thrust Bearing Pin and Centre Housing Assembly AD/CESSNA 207/13 Amdt\n\nFuel Selector Valve - CANCELLED AD/CESSNA 207/14\n\nFuel Reservoir Fitting AD/CESSNA 207/15\n\nGoodyear Fuel Cells AD/CESSNA 207/16\n\nFuel Vent Tube AD/CESSNA 207/17\n\nAmmeter Type and Position AD/CESSNA 207/18\n\nVented Fuel Caps AD/CESSNA 207/19 Amdt\n\nFuel Flow Stabilisation Placard AD/CESSNA 207/20\n\nAlternator Ground Strap AD/CESSNA 207/21 Amdt\n\nFlying Control System Turnbuckles AD/CESSNA 207/22\n\nTurbocharger AD/CESSNA 207/23\n\nFuel Cap Alignment Placard AD/CESSNA 207/24\n\nWing Tip Navigation/Strobe Lights AD/CESSNA 207/25\n\nBladder Type Fuel Cells AD/CESSNA 207/26 Amdt\n\nFuel Filler Caps and Adaptors AD/CESSNA 207/27 Amdt\n\nFuel Selector Valve Safety Wire AD/CESSNA 207/28\n\nRear Wing Spar Doubler AD/CESSNA 207/29\n\n  \nFuel System Water Drainage Placard AD/CESSNA 207/30\n\nSeat Adjustment Mechanism AD/CESSNA 207/31 Amdt\n\nForward Door Post Bulkhead AD/CESSNA 207/32 Amdt\n\nFuel Strainer AD/CESSNA 207/33\n\nHorizontal Stabilizer Front Spar AD/CESSNA 207/34 Amdt\n\nHorizontal Stabiliser Attachment Brackets AD/CESSNA 207/35\n\nBrackett Engine Air Filters AD/CESSNA 207/36 Amdt\n\nCigar Lighter Wiring AD/CESSNA 207/37\n\nUpper Shoulder Harness Adjuster Spring AD/CESSNA 207/38","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. Learn more: https://ai-sdk.dev/unauthenticated-ai-gateway","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a straightforward re-making exercise with no expansion of scope. The note explicitly states each directive is being re-made 'in exactly the same form' as previously published. The instrument performs a purely procedural function under the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 to ensure continuity of regulatory effect."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument (under 2 pages)","No defined terms section — relies entirely on external references to the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998","Simple binary structure: revoke old directives, make new ones","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","Content is purely a schedule/table listing directive numbers and names","Cross-references are limited to a single regulation (subregulation 39.001(1)) and the attached schedules"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument administratively revokes and re‑issues 38 airworthiness directives for Cessna 207 series aeroplanes, keeping their requirements exactly the same so the safety obligations remain legally current under Australian law. It affects Cessna 207 owners and operators, maintenance engineers, and CASA.\n\nThree directives (AD/CESSNA 207/2, /9 and /14) are formally cancelled and not re‑made, so those specific requirements no longer apply."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument does not expand or change the substantive scope of regulatory requirements. It revokes and re‑issues existing ADs in the same form as their latest published editions, which is administrative housekeeping to ensure the statutory instruments in force correspond to the published ADs. No new technical requirements, new categories of aircraft, or new compliance obligations are created by this revocation-and‑remaking."},"complexity_factors":["Short single-purpose instrument (revocation and re‑making only)","Reference to one enabling provision: subregulation 39.001(1) of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998","Schedule listing 38 AD items (AD/CESSNA 207/1 through AD/CESSNA 207/38)","Some listed ADs are marked CANCELLED and several show amendments (Amdt), creating minor interpretive distinctions","Note that attached ADs are to be identical to latest published editions (requires cross‑checking external AD publications)"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this instrument does (mechanically)\n\n- The delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) uses the regulatory power in subregulation 39.001(1) of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 to revoke a set of existing Airworthiness Directives (ADs) that apply to Cessna 207 series aeroplanes and to re‑make each of those ADs as separate, standalone instruments.\n- The instrument lists 38 ADs in Schedule 1 (numbered AD/CESSNA 207/1 through AD/CESSNA 207/38). It records that some of those ADs have been previously cancelled and that some have amendments (Amdt).\n- A note states that each attached AD is being re‑made in exactly the same form as appears in the latest published edition of the Directive, so the technical or compliance content of each AD is not being changed by this action.\n\nWho is affected\n\n- Aircraft owners and operators of Cessna 207 series aeroplanes, and organisations that maintain, certify or inspect those aircraft, because ADs impose mandatory inspection, modification or repair requirements.\n- Maintenance organisations, engineers and operators who rely on the published AD instruments for compliance and continuing airworthiness records.\n\nWhy it matters (practical effects)\n\n- The move is administrative: it revokes the listed ADs and reissues them individually to ensure the legal instruments in force match the latest published editions. The substantive technical requirements imposed by each AD are not altered by this instrument (per the Note).\n- In practice, the compliance obligations on operators and maintainers remain the same. Costs or operational impacts that stem from the ADs (for example, parts, labour, grounding time) continue to be borne by aircraft owners/operators as before.\n\nAdditional implementation and regulatory details to note\n\n- The delegate (CASA official) is the decision‑maker here and uses delegated statutory authority to effect the revocation and re‑issuance.\n- Because the ADs are re‑made \"in exactly the same form,\" the instrument does not create new technical requirements or new discretion for CASA in respect of these ADs. The main practical purpose appears to be legal housekeeping — ensuring each AD exists as a distinct, current statutory instrument.\n\nAnalytical lens: incentives, costs and risks\n\n- Who pays: any costs that flow from the ADs (inspections, fixes, parts, downtime) continue to be paid by the aircraft owners/operators or their service providers; this instrument itself does not impose additional technical costs.\n- Who decides: CASA (through its delegate) decides to revoke and reissue; the content of each AD remains as published.\n- Behaviour changes: there is no change required in technical compliance behaviour because the ADs are unchanged. The likely behavioural effect is administrative: operators and maintainers may need to update their records to cite the re‑made instruments rather than the prior versions.\n- Implementation risk and compliance burden: small administrative risk of transitional confusion (which version to cite, ensuring records reflect the re‑made ADs). The instrument reduces legal uncertainty by aligning the statutory instruments with the latest published ADs, but it requires users to check and, if needed, update documentation.\n- Effects on private enterprise and markets: no change to competitive conditions or contractual freedoms beyond the pre‑existing effects of the ADs themselves; this is an administrative alignment rather than a substantive regulatory expansion.\n\nSource citation\n\n- The instrument is made under subregulation 39.001(1) of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 and applies to the list of ADs in Schedule 1 (AD/CESSNA 207/1 to AD/CESSNA 207/38). The Note in the instrument states the re‑made ADs match the latest published editions.\n"}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-cessna-207-series-aeroplanes","history":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-cessna-207-series-aeroplanes/history","analysis":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-cessna-207-series-aeroplanes/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-cessna-207-series-aeroplanes/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-cessna-207-series-aeroplanes/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-cessna-207-series-aeroplanes/documents"}}