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AD/F50/43 - Fuselage - Flight Compartment Window Frames -1

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This airworthiness directive requires reworking the outside edges of the flight-compartment window frames on specified Fokker F50 aircraft so the edge has a 0.5 mm radius, reducing the sharp edge that caused cracks in fatigue tests. Operators of the listed serial numbers must complete that modification before the aeroplane accumulates 10,000 pressurization cycles (Compliance; Netherlands AD BLA 89-98). The operator pays and schedules the work as a mandatory maintenance action.

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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 Fokker F50 (F27 Mk 50) Series Aeroplanes

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Applicability: All F50 aircraft. Serial numbers 20103 to 20108 inclusive and 20110 to 20122 inclusive.

Requirement: Action in accordance with the Technical Requirements of Netherlands AD BLA 89-98, dated 25 August 1989.

Compliance: Prior to accumulating 10,000 pressurization cycles.

Background: During full-scale fatigue tests of the forward fuselage test article, cracks occurred on the outside edges of the flight compartment window frames. These edges are sharp, which creates local stress concentrations. This AD calls for reworking of the outside edges of the flight-compartment window-frames to introduce a 0.5 mm radius.

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