AD/PA-30/23 Amdt 3 - Stabilator Attachment Bolts - Inspection (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) AD/PA-30/23 Amdt 2 and issues the following AD under subregulation 39.001(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.

Piper PA-30 & 39 (Twin Comanche) Series Aeroplanes AD/PA-30/23 Amdt 3 Stabilator Attachment Bolts - Inspection 2/2009

Applicability: All model Piper PA-30 with serial numbers from 30-1 to 30-2000, and all model Piper PA-39 with serial numbers from 39-1 to 39-155, if the four stabilator attachment bolts are not made of corrosion-resistant steel. Requirement: Remove the four stabilator attachment bolts and inspect for corrosion in accordance with:

(a) Piper PA-30 aircraft - Piper SL No. 667A.

(b) Piper PA-39 aircraft - Piper SL No. 772.

If corrosion is found, before further flight replace the bolt, nut and washer with unused parts of the same part numbers or equivalent. Alternatively, the bolts can be replaced by equivalent corrosion-resistant AN bolts.

Note 1: Parts numbered 502329 and 502342 are corrosion-resistant bolts.

Note 2: FAA AD 74-13-03 (amdt 39-2588) refers. Compliance: At intervals not exceeding three years or five hundred hours time in service, whichever occurs first. Alternatively, the bolts can be replaced by equivalent corrosion-resistant AN bolts.