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AD/BEECH 300/9 Amdt 1 - Outflow/Safety Valve

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Requires inspection and, if necessary, replacement of the outflow/safety valve on specified Beechcraft 300 series aircraft per Beech Service Bulletin 2484 Revision 1. Compliance must occur within 200 hours time-in-service or 4 months. The directive responds to manufacturing defects that may cause rapid decompression. Aircraft owners/operators must carry out and pay for inspections/replacements, must not install valves found unserviceable, and may treat aircraft already certified under the original directive as compliant with this amendment.

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AD/BEECH 300/9 Amdt 1 - Outflow/Safety Valve

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (Civil Aviation Regulations 1998), PART 39 - 105 CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY AUTHORITY

SCHEDULE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES

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Beechcraft 300 Series Aeroplanes

AD/BEECH 300/9

Amdt 1

Outflow/Safety Valve 3/98

Applicability: All model 300 series aircraft with serial numbers as listed in the requirement document.

Requirement: Inspect and if necessary replace the outflow/safety valve in accordance with the procedures detailed in Beech SB 2484 Revision 1 dated October 1995.

Aircraft previously certified against the initial issue of this Directive can be certified as compliant with Amdt 1.

No person shall install on any aircraft any Outflow/Safety Valve found to be unserviceable in accordance with this directive.

Note: FAA AD 97-25-01 Amdt 39-10224 refers and replaces FAA AD 96-17-10 Amdt 39-9719.

Compliance: Within 200 hours time in service or 4 months, whichever occurs first, from the effective date of this directive.

This amendment becomes effective on 26 February 1998.

Background: Manufacturing problems with the safety valve may cause a rapid decompression of the aircraft should a valve failure occur. This amendment expands the range of serial numbers per outflow/safety valves affected.

The original issue of this airworthiness directive became effective on 7 November 1996.

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