AD/BEECH 200/54 Amdt 2 - Pilot and Co-Pilot Chair Locking Mechanism (Cth)

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

Beechcraft 200 (Super King Air) Series Aeroplanes

AD/BEECH 200/54 Pilot and Co-Pilot Chair Locking Mechanism 7/97

Amdt 2

Applicability:

Requirement:

Compliance:

Background:

Models Serial Numbers

200, 200C, 200CT, 200T, B200, BB-2, and BB-6 through BB-1440, BL-1 through B200C, B200CT, B200T. BL-72 and BL-124 through BL-137, BN-1 through BN-4, and BT-1 through BT-34.

a. Inspect the pilot and co-pilot chairs to assure that the locking pins will fully engage in the seat tracks, in accordance with the "Accomplishment Instructions" section of Beech Service Bulletin 2444 Revision II.

b. Modify any chair where the locking pin fails to fully engage or is misaligned, in accordance with the maintenance manual as specified in Beech Service Bulletin

2444, Revision II. Note: FAA AD 97-06-06 Amdt 39-9963 refers. Unless already accomplished within 150 hours time in service after 19 June 1997. This amendment becomes effective on 19 June 1997.

The FAA received reports of pilot and co-pilot chair locking pin malfunctions, which in one instance caused the pilot chair to slide back from the full forward position.

Amendment | updated BB- and BT- serial number applicability.

Amendment 2 is issued in response to anew FAA AD which requires the inspection to be accomplished in accordance with revised service information, as reflected in revision II of the requirement document.

Amendment | of this airworthiness directive became effective on 17 August 1995.

The original issue of this airworthiness directive became effective on 1 April 1993.

Federal Register of Legislative Instruments F2006B03707