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AD/BEECH 35/27 - Fuel System Placards

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This airworthiness directive requires owners/operators of certain Beechcraft 35-series aeroplanes (specified models and serial numbers) to install a cockpit placard warning pilots about prohibited turning take-offs, prolonged slips with low fuel, and related fuel-selection guidance, and to remove an older caution placard if fitted. The owner/operator may make and certify the new placard, must meet minimum letter-size, and must comply within 100 flying hours of 29 April 1970. It affects private operators by adding a small installation and compliance task to manage fuel-related pilot warnings.

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AD/BEECH 35/27 - Fuel System Placards

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

SCHEDULE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES

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Beechcraft 35 (Bonanza) Series Aeroplanes

AD/BEECH 35/27 Fuel System Placards 4/70

Applicability: Models H35 fitted with fuel injection engines, J35, K35, M35, N35, P35, S35, S35- TC, V35, V35-TC, V35A and V35A-TC with S/Nos. D5062, D5331 through D9068,

35R with S/Nos. 25R1 and later numbers, unless retro-fitted with anti-slosh main fuel tanks.

Requirement: 1. A placard reading “Turning Type Take-offs, and Take-off immediately following Fast Taxi Turn Prohibited. Avoid Prolonged Slip (20 seconds or more) With Fuel Tanks Less Than Half Full” is to be placed on the instrument panel in clear view of the pilot.

Note: The owner or operator may make and certify for the installation of the above placard. Letters of one eighth inch minimum height shall be used.

Where fitted remove the placard “Caution - To prevent Fuel Flow Interruption Due to Gravity or Centrifugal Force, Select the High-Wing Tank in Slips and Inside Tank During Turning Take-Offs”.

Note: FAA AD 70-3-5 refers.

Compliance: Within 100 hours time in service after 29 April 1970.

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