{"id":"F2006B07905","name":"Airworthiness Directives 2004 - Revocation and Remaking - Iniziative Industriali Italiane Sky Arrow 650 Series Aeroplanes","slug":"airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-iniziative-industriali-italiane-sky-arrow-650-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":50928,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2006B07905-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 - Iniziative Industriali Italiane Sky Arrow 650 Series Aeroplanes","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n Airworthiness Directives 2004\n\n I, DAVID ALAN VILLIERS, delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety\n\n Authority, acting under subregulation 39.001 (1) of the Civil\n\n Aviation Safety Regulations 1998:\n\n (a) revoke the Airworthiness Directives mentioned in\n\n Schedule 1; and\n\n (b) make, as separate instruments, each Airworthiness\n\n Directive mentioned in Schedule 1 and attached.\n\n \n\n ![](image.001.png)\n\n David Villiers\n\n Delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority\n\n \n\n  20 December 2004\n\n Note:   Each attached Airworthiness Directive is being re-made in exactly the\n\n same form as appears in the latest published edition of the Directive.\n\n \n\n\n Schedule 1 Revocation and Remaking of\n\n Airworthiness Directives\n\n Iniziative Industriali Italiane Sky Arrow 650 Series Aeroplanes\n\n AD Name AD Number\n\n Nose Gear Support Bulkhead AD/SKY ARROW/1\n\n Engine Mount AD/SKY ARROW/2\n\n Throttle Stop AD/SKY ARROW/3\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument maintains identical scope to the original directives. The remaking is purely procedural — reissuing existing safety requirements under current legislative authority without expanding, narrowing, or altering the substantive safety obligations."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument (under 300 words)","Only 3 defined items (the three Airworthiness Directives listed in Schedule 1)","Simple binary structure: revoke old, make new","No nested conditional logic or cross-references to other legislation beyond the basic enabling power (Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998, subregulation 39.001(1))","Explicit note confirming no substantive change to technical content","Single Schedule with straightforward tabular format"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a technical aviation safety instrument issued by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) in December 2004. It does two things:\n\n**What it does:**\n- **Revokes** (cancels) three existing Airworthiness Directives for a specific type of light aircraft — the Sky Arrow 650 series made by an Italian company (Iniziative Industriali Italiane)\n- **Remakes** those same three directives as brand new, separate legal instruments\n\n**The three safety issues covered:**\n- **AD/SKY ARROW/1**: Problems with the nose gear support bulkhead (a structural part that holds the front landing gear)\n- **AD/SKY ARROW/2**: Issues with the engine mount (the structure that attaches the engine to the aircraft)\n- **AD/SKY ARROW/3**: Problems with the throttle stop (a component that limits how far the throttle can move)\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Owners and operators of Sky Arrow 650 series aeroplanes\n- Maintenance engineers who work on these aircraft\n- The aircraft manufacturer\n\n**Why it matters:**\nAirworthiness Directives are legally binding safety orders. They require specific inspections, repairs, or modifications to fix unsafe conditions in aircraft. This instrument is essentially a housekeeping exercise — CASA is tidying up its legislative framework by reissuing these directives under current regulations rather than older ones, without changing the actual safety requirements. The note confirms the technical content stays exactly the same."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not change the substantive scope or requirements of the listed Airworthiness Directives. It revokes the prior instruments and re‑issues each AD in \"exactly the same form\" as in the latest published edition, so the substantive obligations remain the same; the change is procedural/administrative (see clauses (a) and (b) and the Note, and Schedule 1)."},"complexity_factors":["Administrative/legal formality: the instrument performs revocation and re‑making of existing ADs rather than introducing technical requirements.","Single statutory footing: relies on one clear power (subregulation 39.001(1)) to effect the change.","Reference dependency: the instrument depends on attached ADs and the \"latest published edition\" language for substance, which concentrates technical complexity in those referenced documents rather than in this instrument.","Multiple instruments: three separate ADs are listed and will exist as separate instruments, requiring discrete citation and record updates.","Low operational change: substantive obligations remain unchanged, reducing practical complexity for compliance.","Potential administrative follow‑up: updating legal references, records, and citations across regulator and operators."],"plain_english_summary":"What this instrument does\n\n- A delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) uses the power in subregulation 39.001(1) of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 to revoke a set of existing Airworthiness Directives (ADs) and to re‑make each one as a separate legal instrument. (See: action under subregulation 39.001(1).)\n\nWho is affected\n\n- Owners, operators and maintainers of Iniziative Industriali Italiane Sky Arrow 650 series aeroplanes are the practical audience, because the ADs listed in Schedule 1 apply to those aeroplanes. (See: Schedule 1.)\n\nHow it works, mechanically\n\n- The instrument expressly revokes the Airworthiness Directives named in Schedule 1 and then re‑issues each of those ADs as a separate instrument. (See: clauses (a) and (b).)\n- The instrument states that each attached AD is being re‑made \"in exactly the same form as appears in the latest published edition of the Directive.\" That means the substantive content and requirements of the listed ADs are unchanged by this action. (See: Note.)\n- The three ADs named in Schedule 1 are: Nose Gear Support Bulkhead (AD/SKY ARROW/1); Engine Mount (AD/SKY ARROW/2); and Throttle Stop (AD/SKY ARROW/3). (See: Schedule 1.)\n\nWho decides and who pays\n\n- Decision authority: a CASA delegate acting under subregulation 39.001(1) makes the revocation and re‑making. (See: opening paragraph citing the subregulation and the signature block.)\n- Financial and compliance effects: the instrument itself does not change the compliance obligations or technical requirements in the ADs (they are re‑made in the same form). Therefore the costs of complying with those ADs remain those set out in the ADs themselves. Any immediate administrative costs are limited to updating legal records, references and citations to reflect that the ADs now exist as separate instruments. (See: clauses (a), (b) and the Note.)\n\nImplementation, incentives and trade‑offs\n\n- This is a procedural move: it replaces previous instrument references by separately issued instruments without altering substantive content. The principal trade‑off is administrative: CASA and affected parties may need to update citations and records to reflect the new separate instruments, but the operational and technical obligations on aircraft operators stay the same because the ADs are reproduced in identical form. (See: clauses (a), (b) and the Note.)\n\nPractical takeaway\n\n- If you operate or maintain a Sky Arrow 650 series aeroplane, your substantive obligations under the Nose Gear Support Bulkhead, Engine Mount and Throttle Stop ADs do not change as a result of this instrument; the ADs have simply been re‑issued as separate instruments by CASA. (See: Note and Schedule 1.)"}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-iniziative-industriali-italiane-sky-arrow-650-","history":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-iniziative-industriali-italiane-sky-arrow-650-/history","analysis":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-iniziative-industriali-italiane-sky-arrow-650-/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-iniziative-industriali-italiane-sky-arrow-650-/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-iniziative-industriali-italiane-sky-arrow-650-/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-iniziative-industriali-italiane-sky-arrow-650-/documents"}}