AD/BEECH 90/54 Aft and Nose Hinged Baggage Door Latching Inspection and Modification 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 90/54.

Beechcraft 90 and 65-90 (King Air) Series Aeroplanes

AD/BEECH 90/54 Aft and Nose Hinged Baggage Door Latching - Inspection and Modification 7/2008

Requirement:

CANCELLED.

This AD is cancelled on 3 July 2008.

Background:

This unique Australian AD, issued in 1980 against Beechcraft Service Instruction (SI) No.1126, required provision of a more effective bell crank stop for the hinged baggage door latch mechanism, to prevent the possibility either the forward or aft baggage doors opening in-flight.

Compliance with the AD was within 100 hours time in service after 31 July 1980.

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

David Villiers
Delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority

23 May 2008