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AD/TB10/7 - Battery Tray Installation

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This airworthiness directive requires owners/operators of specified Aerospatiale (Socata) TB9 and TB10 aircraft (certain serial numbers listed and several excluded) to inspect and modify the battery tray installation per Socata Service Letter No. 18, and to check surrounding fuselage for corrosion from possible electrolyte spillage. Compliance was mandated within 50 hours time-in-service after 31 October 1985. The directive places the cost and action burden on aircraft owners/operators and is enforceable by the aviation regulator.

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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 Aerospatiale (Socata) TB9 and TB10 (Tobago) Series Aeroplanes

AD/TB10/7 Battery Tray Installation 10/85

Applicability: All models TB9 and TB10 series with S/nos up to 441 but excluding S/nos 343, 382, 414, 423, 425 to 429 and 434 to 438.

Requirement: Inspect and modify the battery tray installation in accordance with the requirements detailed in Socata Service Letter No. 18 under description paragraph 1. Pay particular attention to surrounding fuselage structure for signs of electrolyte spillage and subsequent damage.

Note: French AD 85-130-(A) refers.

Compliance: Within 50 hours time in service after 31 October 1985.

Background: The battery tray installation may be such that electrolyte spillage from the battery could cause fuselage structural damage due to corrosion.

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