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AD/F27/140 - Fuselage Skin Lap Joints Below the Cabin Floor

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This Airworthiness Directive requires owners/operators of specified Fokker F27 serial numbers that have been operated at a nominal 5.5 psi to modify fuselage skin lap joints below the cabin floor in accordance with Fokker Service Bulletin F27/53-116 to address multi-site fatigue cracking. It sets two modification zones with flight-cycle or date deadlines, cancels specified inspection tasks, and allows recalculation of thresholds where pressure differential was later reduced; operators fund and schedule the required work.

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AD/F27/140 - Fuselage Skin Lap Joints Below the Cabin Floor

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

SCHEDULE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES

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Fokker F27 Series Aeroplanes

AD/F27/140 Fuselage Skin Lap Joints Below the Cabin Floor 6/95

Applicability: All F27 aircraft S/N 10102 to 10375 in pre Service Bulletin (SB) F27/53-68 or pre SB F27/53-85 configuration that have been operated at a nominal pressure differential of

5.5 psi.

Requirement: 1. Modify the fuselage skin lap joints below floor level from FS 1400 to FS 12975 as applicable, in accordance with Fokker SB F27/53-116, paragraph 2, Parts 1 and 2.

Modify the fuselage skin lap joints below floor level from FS 12975 to FS 16669, in accordance with Fokker SB F27/53-116, paragraph 2, Part 3.

Note: Netherlands RLD AD 94-092(A) refers.

Compliance: 1. Modify in accordance with Requirement 1 before 32 000 flights or before 1 July 1996, whichever occurs later.

Modify in accordance with Requirement 2 before 56 000 flights or before 1 July 1996, whichever occurs later.

Note 1: The formulae in SB F27/53-116 may be used to calculate a higher threshold for aircraft which initially operated at 5.5 psi but which have been subsequently modified to operate at 4.16 psi.

Note 2: Modification in accordance with this AD cancels the inspection requirement of SIP items 53-30-02, 53-30-03 and 53-30-04.

Background: Recent fatigue analysis has indicated that certain configuration fuselage lap joints below the floor are susceptible to multi-site cracking when the aircraft has been operated at a pressure differential of 5.5 psi. As the area is difficult to inspect a modification is required to improve the fatigue life.

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