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AD/SWSA226/75 - Cockpit Floor FOD Barriers

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This Airworthiness Directive mandates fitting foreign-object-damage (FOD) barriers into the cockpit floorboards of specified Fairchild (Swearingen) SA226 and SA227 aircraft, using the applicable Fairchild service bulletin procedures. It applies to only the listed serial-number ranges and must be carried out within 600 hours time-in-service after 29 February 1996. The measure responds to recorded incidents where items passed through floor openings and jammed the elevator and yoke.

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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 Fairchild (Swearingen) SA226 and SA227 Series Aeroplanes

AD/SWSA226/75 Cockpit Floor FOD Barriers 3/96

Applicability: All serial numbers SA226-T, SA226-T(B), SA226-AT, SA226-TC, SA227-AT, SA227-AC, SA227-BC, SA227-TT; SA227-CC S/n CC784 and CC790 to CC863, and SA227-DC S/n DC784 and DC790 to DC863.

Requirement: Action in accordance with either Fairchild SBs 226-53-012, 227-53-005, or CC7-53- 002 as applicable.

Note: FAA AD 95-24-11 refers.

Compliance: Within 600 hours time in service after 29 February 1996.

Background: This Directive requires the installation of foreign object damage (FOD) barriers in the floorboards of the cockpit. This action follows incidents where objects fell through openings in the cockpit floor and jammed the elevator and the yoke.

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