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AD/BN-2/49 - Pilots Seat Backs - Inspection and Modification

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This directive requires operators of Pilatus Britten‑Norman BN‑2 aeroplanes fitted with specific individual pilot sliding seat units (certain P/Ns, unless already modified by NB/M/1217) to inspect those seats for distortion/fracture and to carry out a mandated seat‑back modification per Britten Norman SB BN2/SB163.

Inspections must begin at the next maintenance release after 31 July 1984 and continue at each release; the modification must be completed by 30 November 1984. Operators bear costs and scheduling responsibility.

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

SCHEDULE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES

View image in the official source Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2 Series Aeroplanes

AD/BN-2/49 Pilots Seat Backs - Inspection and Modification 7/84

Applicability: All models with individual pilots sliding seat units - P/N NBC-010-H-001 (LH) and P/N NBC-010-H-002 (RH) or NBC-012-H-001, not embodying mod. NB/M/1217.

Document: Britten Norman SB No. BN2/SB163.

Compliance: INSPECT: Prior to the issue of the next maintenance release after 31 July 1984 and

thereafter at each issue of a new maintenance release.

MODIFY: Before 30 November 1984.

Background: Some individual seat units, installed in the flight compartment, have been affected by distortion and fracture at the attachment of the folding back to the seat frame.

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