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AD/MU-2/26 - Control Cable Turnbuckles - Inspection and Replacement

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This Airworthiness Directive requires inspection and replacement of specific control-cable turnbuckles on affected Mitsubishi MU-2B series aeroplanes to address a safety defect.

Owners/operators of listed MU-2B serials must inspect for and replace turnbuckles P/N MS21251B3L or MS21251BS manufactured by Teledyne Inet in 1971, following Mitsubishi Service Bulletin No. 184, within the prescribed flight-hour compliance window. Failure could allow stress-corrosion cracking and loss of control.

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

SCHEDULE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES

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AD/MU-2/26 Control Cable Turnbuckles - Inspection

and Replacement

11/83

Applicability: All models MU-2B/-10/-15/-20/-25/-26 : S/Nos. up thru 347 (except S/Nos. 313, 321.)

All models Mu-2B-30/-35/-36 : S/Nos. up thru 696 (except S/Nos. 652, 661.) Document: Mitsubishi MU-2 S.B. No. 184.

Compliance: Unless already accomplished within 200 hours time in service after 30th November 1983.

Background: Stress corrosion cracking has been found in some P/No. MS21251B3L and MS21251BS turnbuckles manufactured by Teledyne Inet. in 1971.

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