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AD/VAT/43 Amdt 1 - Flapperon Operating Lever and Lever Attach Box Section - Inspection

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This airworthiness directive requires removal and inspection of the flapperon operating lever assembly and the lever-attach box sections on Victa and A.E.S.L. Airtourer series aeroplanes for corrosion and cracking, or alternatively inspection through approved inspection holes. Compliance is within 100 hours time-in-service after 30 April 1984 and then at intervals not exceeding three years. The defect can impede control-surface input; aircraft owners/operators pay for inspections and repairs, and the Secretary approves any alternative inspection scheme.

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AD/VAT/43 Amdt 1 - Flapperon Operating Lever and Lever Attach Box Section - Inspection

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

SCHEDULE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES

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Victa and A.E.S.L. Airtourer Series Aeroplanes

AD/VAT/43

Amdt 1

Applicability: All models.

Flapperon Operating Lever and Lever Attach Box Section - Inspection

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Requirement: Remove the flapperon operating lever assembly and inspect the lever attach box sections and the operating levers for evidence of corrosion and cracking.

Note: Alternatively, inspection may be achieved without dissasembly by the provision of inspection holes to a scheme approved by the Secretary.

Compliance: Unless already accomplished, within 100 hours time in service after 30 April 1984, and thereafter at intervals not exceeding 3 years.

Background: Reports have been received of evidence of corrosion and cracking in the lever and box section which has resulted from moisture entrapment. Failure to detect this defect could result in the eventual loss of control surface input movement. This AD is amended to remove the operating lever assembly part number as all assembly part numbers are affected.

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