{"id":"F2006B07851","name":"Airworthiness Directives 2004 - Revocation and Remaking - Emergency Equipment","slug":"airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-emergency-equipment","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":50808,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2006B07851-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 - Emergency Equipment","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\nEmergency Equipment\n\nAD Name AD Number\n\nSingle Chamber Inflatable Life Jackets - CANCELLED AD/EMY/1\n\nLife Jackets and Inflatable Flotation Devices AD/EMY/2 Amdt 6\n\nInflatable Escape Slides - Modification AD/EMY/3 Amdt 1\n\nLife Rafts AD/EMY/4 Amdt 6\n\nLife Jackets - Modification AD/EMY/5 Amdt 1\n\nInflatable Escape Slides - Modification AD/EMY/6\n\nLife Jackets - Inspection AD/EMY/7\n\nLife Jackets - Inspection and Modification AD/EMY/8\n\nLife Jackets - Modification AD/EMY/9\n\nInflatable Escape Slide Regulators - Inspection AD/EMY/10\n\nPatten/Pan Avion Inflatable Escape Slides - Modification AD/EMY/11\n\nBeaufort Operating Mechanism C.1855 (P/N ME 48) - Inspection and AD/EMY/12\n\nAircruisers Discharge Valves - Inspection AD/EMY/13\n\nAircruisers 6, 10, 25 & 35 Man Life Rafts - Inspection and Modification AD/EMY/14\n\nLife Jacket Inflation Mechanism P/Nos. WKA. 36044 and WKA. 35153 - AD/EMY/15\n\nLife Jackets (Beaufort) - Inspection AD/EMY/16 Amdt 2\n\nLife Jackets - Retirement AD/EMY/17\n\nLife Jackets - Inspection AD/EMY/18\n\nLife Jackets - Inspection AD/EMY/19\n\nLife Jackets - Pressure Test AD/EMY/20\n\nLife Jackets (RFD) - Inspection AD/EMY/21\n\nSwitlik Life Jackets and Flotation Devices AD/EMY/22\n\nAerazur Life Rafts AD/EMY/23\n\nAerazur Life Rafts AD/EMY/24\n\nEmergency Evacuation Slide AD/EMY/25\n\nEmergency Evacuation Slide AD/EMY/26\n\nAerazur Lifejackets AD/EMY/27\n\nAerazur Liferaft AD/EMY/28\n\nRFD Liferaft AD/EMY/29\n\n  \nDunlop-Beaufort Mk 28 Lifejacket AD/EMY/30\n\nAerazur Life Raft Type 606 AD/EMY/31\n\nThis AD Not Issued AD/EMY/32\n\nEmergency Evacuation Slide/Raft AD/EMY/33 Amdt 1","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument expressly revokes listed Airworthiness Directives and remakes them “in exactly the same form” as the latest published editions (Note). It is an administrative reissuance rather than a substantive change to regulatory requirements; affected obligations continue under the newly issued instruments."},"complexity_factors":["Administrative nature: revocation and re‑making of existing ADs with no substantive change (note in text).","Number of instruments listed (multiple ADs across Emergency Equipment) increases administrative tracking for regulators and regulated parties.","Some entries show amendments (e.g. “Amdt 6”), implying versioning and potential need to confirm latest amendment status.","Legal basis is a single subregulation (subreg 39.001(1)), so decision space is narrow but concentrated in the CASA delegate.","Attachments and the Schedule are relied on for content; reliance on identical republishing increases dependence on accurate attachment handling.","Implication for compliance systems: operators must map old AD references to the re‑made instruments to maintain continuing compliance."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument, made by a Civil Aviation Safety Authority delegate under subregulation 39.001(1), formally revokes a listed set of Airworthiness Directives and re‑issues each one as a separate instrument. The re‑made ADs are published in exactly the same form as the latest editions. Affected parties — aircraft operators, maintenance organisations and equipment manufacturers — remain subject to the same compliance obligations; the CASA delegate decides the administrative reissue and those parties bear the cost of ongoing compliance."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The document explicitly states it is remaking the Airworthiness Directives 'in exactly the same form as appears in the latest published edition.' This is purely an administrative reissuance with no expansion or alteration to the substantive safety requirements."},"complexity_factors":["Very short document (approximately 1 page of substantive content)","No defined terms section — relies on external understanding of 'Airworthiness Directive'","Simple binary structure: revoke old instruments, make new ones","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references within the instrument itself","Schedule 1 is a straightforward table listing 33 ADs by name and number","One explicit note clarifying no substantive change to content","Operates under a single, clear regulation reference (subregulation 39.001(1))"],"plain_english_summary":"This CASA order cancels 33 existing Airworthiness Directives on emergency equipment (life jackets, inflatable slides/rafts and flotation devices) and re-issues them as new, separate legal instruments. It affects aircraft owners, operators, maintenance engineers and equipment manufacturers who must continue to comply with the same inspection, testing and retirement rules. This is a housekeeping action: the requirements remain unchanged, only the legal instruments are re-made."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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