{"id":"F2006B08000","name":"Airworthiness Directives 2004 - Revocation and Remaking - Restraint Equipment","slug":"airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-restraint-equipment","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":115057,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2006B08000-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Airworthiness Directives 2004 - Revocation and Remaking - Restraint 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\nRestraint Equipment\n\nAD Name AD Number\n\nSafety Belt - Mills ME 2095 - Modification AD/RES/1\n\nInertia Reels - AN-R-29 - Inspection AD/RES/2\n\nSafety Belts - Davis FDC-2700 - Inspection AD/RES/3\n\nAerolex (Harley) Safety Belt Attachment - Inspection and Modification AD/RES/4\n\nInertia Reels - AN-R-29 - Replacement AD/RES/5 Amdt 1\n\nSafety Belts - Mills ME 2402 and ME 2402T - Inspection and Rectification AD/RES/6\n\nSafety Harness Buckles MS22013 and 44B26452 - Modification - CANCELLED AD/RES/7 Amdt 2\n\nInertia Reels - Pacific Scientific Part No ASSY0107119 - Inspection - AD/RES/8\n\nUnapproved Safety Belts and Harnesses - Removal From Service AD/RES/9\n\nIndiana Mills Safety Belts AD/RES/10 Amdt 4\n\nEon Corporation E8000 Buckle Assemblies AD/RES/11 Amdt 1\n\nSafety Harness Buckle - Pacific Scientific Rotary AD/RES/12 Amdt 1\n\nTeleflex Morse Inertia Reels - Modification AD/RES/13 Amdt 1\n\nIntegral Buckle Assembly, Pacific Scientific P/N 1107261-01, -05, -09 AD/RES/14\n\nPacific Scientific Dual Tension Reel Assembly P/Nos 0109101-01, -03, -05, AD/RES/15\n\nSafety Harness End Fittings - Davis Aircraft Products P/N FD 1497M - AD/RES/16\n\nAmerican Safety Equipment Lap Belt/Shoulder Harness and/or Crotch Strap AD/RES/17 Amdt 1\n\nSecuraiglon (Ex L'Aiglon) Safety Belts - Modification AD/RES/18\n\nAm-Safe Harness Buckle Assemblies AD/RES/19\n\nEon Corporation E6000 Buckle Assemblies AD/RES/20\n\nPacific Scientific Lap Belt Assemblies AD/RES/21\n\nPacific Scientific Buckle - Agricultural Aircraft AD/RES/22 Amdt 1\n\nDavis FDC-9400B Series Safety Belts AD/RES/23\n\nAeronautique Seat Belts and Harnesses AD/RES/24\n\nSeat Mounted Cargo Containers AD/RES/25\n\nAMI Industries Pilot Lap Belt Attachment Link AD/RES/26\n\nHEMCO Seat Belts and Harnesses AD/RES/27 Amdt 2\n\nPacific Scientific Lift Lever Buckle Assemblies AD/RES/28\n\nSeat Belts and Harnesses - CANCELLED AD/RES/29 Amdt 1\n\n  \nAeronautique Equipment Seat Belts, Harnesses and Cargo Restraint Equipment AD/RES/30\n\nSutton Harness Inspection and Life AD/RES/31\n\nAircraft Belts Inc - Buckle Assemblies AD/RES/32\n\nAnjou Aeronautique Restraint Systems AD/RES/33 Amdt 1","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The content of each directive remains unchanged from the previous version."},"complexity_factors":["involves multiple specific airworthiness directives","technical terms for aircraft components"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument revokes and reissues a set of Civil Aviation Safety Authority airworthiness directives concerning aircraft restraint equipment (safety belts, inertia reels, harness buckles and attachment points) in their current, unchanged form. It applies to owners, operators and maintainers of Australian‑registered aircraft who must continue to follow the existing inspection, modification, replacement or removal requirements. The action is administrative: obligations remain the same, but the directives are kept current and enforceable."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a technical remaking exercise under legislative renewal requirements. The instrument explicitly states that each AD is being remade \"in exactly the same form as appears in the latest published edition.\" The scope remains identical to the original ADs—no expansion of regulatory reach or substantive amendment to safety requirements."},"complexity_factors":["Short, single-purpose instrument (approximately 1.5 pages)","No defined terms section—relies on external understanding of \"Airworthiness Directive\" and aviation terminology","Simple binary structure: revoke (a) and remake (b)","Cross-reference to external schedules and attached documents (the actual ADs are not reproduced in full, only listed)","Relies on underlying regulatory framework (Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998, subregulation 39.001(1)) without explaining it","Tabular schedule listing 33 items with inconsistent naming conventions (some include \"Amdt\" numbers, some marked \"CANCELLED\")"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a formal legal instrument made by a delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) in December 2004. It does two things:\n\n**What it does:**\n- **Revokes** (cancels) 33 existing Airworthiness Directives (ADs) relating to aircraft restraint equipment (seatbelts, harnesses, inertia reels, and related safety gear)\n- **Remakes** those same 33 ADs as fresh, legally valid instruments\n\n**Why this matters:**\nAirworthiness Directives are mandatory safety notices issued by CASA. When an AD identifies a safety defect or required maintenance on aircraft equipment, owners and operators must comply or the aircraft cannot fly legally. These particular ADs cover critical safety equipment that keeps pilots and passengers secured during flight.\n\n**The technical reason for this exercise:**\nAustralian aviation law changed in 1998 with new Civil Aviation Safety Regulations. Older ADs needed to be \"remade\" under the new legal framework to ensure they remained enforceable. This instrument is essentially a housekeeping exercise—converting old safety rules into the new format without changing their substance. The note at the bottom confirms: each AD is being remade \"in exactly the same form\" as before.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Aircraft owners and operators with the listed restraint equipment installed\n- Maintenance engineers and organisations responsible for inspecting and modifying this equipment\n- Manufacturers and suppliers of aviation restraint systems\n\n**Key detail:** Two of the listed ADs are marked \"CANCELLED\" (AD/RES/7 and AD/RES/29), meaning they were being revoked but not remade—likely because the safety issue had been resolved or the equipment was obsolete."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Scope not changed: the instrument expressly revokes the listed Airworthiness Directives and re‑makes them in the same form as the latest published edition, so substantive obligations and affected populations remain the same (instrument text; Note; Schedule 1)."},"complexity_factors":["Procedure-only change: revocation and re‑making of existing ADs without substantive amendment (Note: \"Each attached Airworthiness Directive is being re-made in exactly the same form as appears in the latest published edition of the Directive\").","Large catalogue: Schedule 1 lists many distinct ADs covering different restraint components (belts, harnesses, inertia reels, buckles, etc.), requiring recipients to track multiple separate instruments.","Mixed statuses: several entries show amendments or cancellations (e.g. entries marked \"Amdt 1\", \"Amdt 2\", \"Amdt 4\", and \"CANCELLED\"), increasing administrative tracking burdens (Schedule 1).","Regulatory authority concentrated in a CASA delegate under subregulation 39.001(1), creating a single decision point for the procedural reissuance (instrument heading).","Compliance burden concentrated on aircraft operators/owners and maintenance organisations who must undertake inspections, modifications, replacements or removals specified by the listed ADs (Schedule 1 item titles like \"Inspection\", \"Modification\", \"Replacement\", \"Removal From Service\").","Low substantive legal complexity because the instrument does not change obligations, but medium administrative complexity due to reissuing and separately managing many ADs."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument, made by a CASA delegate under subregulation 39.001(1), revokes a list of Airworthiness Directives about aircraft restraint equipment and reissues each one as a separate instrument in the identical form to the latest published edition. It therefore leaves the substantive requirements (inspections, modifications, replacements and removals listed in Schedule 1) unchanged but requires operators, owners, maintenance organisations and manufacturers to follow the re-made, separately issued ADs."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-restraint-equipment","history":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-restraint-equipment/history","analysis":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-restraint-equipment/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-restraint-equipment/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-restraint-equipment/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/airworthiness-directives-2004-revocation-and-remaking-restraint-equipment/documents"}}