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

SCHEDULE OF AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES

AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE

For the reasons set out in the background section, the CASA delegate whose signature appears below issues the following Airworthiness Directive (AD) under subregulation 39.1 (1) of CASR 1998. The AD requires that the action set out in the requirement section (being action that the delegate considers necessary to correct the unsafe condition) be taken in relation to the aircraft or aeronautical product mentioned in the applicability section: (a) in the circumstances mentioned in the requirement section; and (b) in accordance with the instructions set out in the requirement section; and (c) at the time mentioned in the compliance section.

Pacific Aerospace Corporation Cresco Series Aeroplanes

AD/CRESCO/5 Aileron Control Cables 5/2004

Applicability: All Model Cresco 08-600 aircraft.

Requirement: Inspect aileron control cable in accordance with Pacific Aerospace Service Bulletin PACSB/CR/033.

Note: NZ CAA AD DCA/CRESCO/6 refers.

Compliance: Initially, at the next scheduled 100 hour inspection after 13 May 2004, unless already accomplished. Inspect thereafter at intervals not to exceed 1,000 hours time in service or 12 months, whichever occurs first.

This Airworthiness Directive becomes effective on 13 May 2004.

Background: Cables have been detected in service with significant fraying at the location of the wing inboard rib fairlead. This is an area not readily accessed during routine inspection.

David Villiers

Delegate of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority 2 April 2004

The above AD is notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 April 2004.

Page 1 of 1