AD/BEECH 65/52 Landing Gear Torque Tube Inspection and Replacement 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 65/52.

Beechcraft 65 and 70 (Queen Air) Series Aeroplanes

AD/BEECH 65/52 Landing Gear Torque Tube - Inspection
and Replacement 7/2008

Requirement:

CANCELLED.

This AD is cancelled on 3 July 2008.

Background:

This unique Australian AD, issued in 1979, required the landing gear torque tube to be inspected for elongated or double drilling of the bolt hole where the nose gear drive sprocket attaches to the torque tube and gearbox shaft in accordance with Beechcraft Service Instruction (SI) No.1049.

Compliance with the AD was within 100 hours time in service after 31 August 1979.

As all affected aircraft would have been inspected by now, this AD is no longer required.

James Coyne
Delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority

22 May 2008