AD/BEECH 65/41 Fuel System Placards Cancelled (Cth)

AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE

On the effective date specified below, and for the reasons set out in the background section, the CASA delegate whose signature appears below revokes Airworthiness Directive AD/BEECH 65/41.

Beechcraft 65 and 70 (Queen Air) Series Aeroplanes

AD/BEECH 65/41 Fuel System - Placards 7/2008

Requirement:

CANCELLED.

This AD is cancelled on 3 July 2008.

Background:

This unique Australian AD was issued in 1974 against Beechcraft Service Instruction (SI) No. 0539-281, rather than a State of Design AD, requiring new decals to be installed to reflect a change in unusable fuel and to denote new FAA minimum fuel requirements for take-off.

Compliance was within 100 hours TIS after 31 July 1974.

SI No. 0559-281 was applicable to the Beechcraft 56TC and A56TC models for which AD/BEECH 56/15 was raised covering the same subject. AD/BEECH 60/26 was also raised against this SI.

Note:  This AD was similar to the requirements contained in FAA AD 72-11-02 which is relevant to AD/BEECH 33/16, AD/BEECH 35/39 and AD/BEECH 36/16.

As all affected aircraft would have complied with this AD by now, it is considered that an unsafe condition no longer exists.

James Coyne
Delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority

22 May 2008