AD/SM-260/15 Wing Tip Fuel Tank Components 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/SM-260/15.

SIAI Marchetti 260 Series Aeroplanes

AD/SM-260/15 Wing Tip Fuel Tank
Components - Inspection and Replacement 8/2009

Requirement:

CANCELLED.

This AD is cancelled on 30 July 2009.

Background:

This unique Australian AD raised in 1984 against SIAI Marchetti Service Bulletin (SB) SB No. 260B39 required inspections and modification to prevent possible fuel flow obstruction caused by movement of the tip tank fuel tubes.

Compliance was within 25 hours TIS after 31 October 1984, and at intervals of 25 hours TIS until modified.

This AD has been sufficiently promulgated for the affected aircraft to have been modified by now; therefore this AD is considered to be no longer required.

James Coyne
Delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority

16 June 2009