Airworthiness Directive · Amendment 39-15120 · Wings
Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH Model DA 42 Airplanes
This AD applies to Model DA 42 airplanes, serial numbers (S/N) 42.004 and up, certificated in any category.
We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for the products listed above. This AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) issued by an aviation authority of another country to identify and correct an unsafe condition on an aviation product. The MCAI describes the unsafe condition as:
Unless already done, do the following actions:
(1) For S/N 42.004 through 42.035, and 42.037: Within 60 days after August 10, 2007 (the effective date of this AD), do the following actions following Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH Mandatory Service Bulletin No. MSB-42-006/1, dated September 20, 2005:
(i) Exchange the wing stub safety walks following paragraph 1.8, Action 2 a) to b) of Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH Mandatory Service Bulletin No. MSB-42-006/1, dated September 20, 2005.
(ii) Insert Diamond Aircraft Airplane Flight Manual Temporary Revision Performance Data DA 42 AFM TR-MÄM-42-111/a, dated September 20, 2005, Revision 3 to the Airplane Flight Manual (AFM), or any future revision that incorporates the same information into the Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH Aircraft Airplane Flight Manual DA 42, Doc. 7.01.05-E.
(2) For S/N 42.036, 42.038 through 42.064, 42.107, 42.109, 42.110, and 42.177: Within 60 days after August 10, 2007 (the effective date of this AD), insert Diamond Aircraft Airplane Flight Manual Temporary Revision Performance Data DA 42 AFM TR-MÄM-42-111/a, dated September 20, 2005, Revision 3 to the AFM, or any future revision that incorporates the same information into the Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH Aircraft Airplane Flight Manual DA 42, Doc. 7.01.05-E.
(3) For S/N 42.004 and up: Within 60 days after August 10, 2007 (the effective date of this AD), adhere to the following:
(i) No wing stub safety walks Series 300 (equals sandpaper grid 40), gray color, part number (P/N) D60-1127-10-51 (no revision letter attached) may be installed as a spare part on the Model DA 42 airplane. Only Diamond Aircraft Industries (DAI) GmbH released safety walk P/Ns with a surface roughness equal to or finer than sandpaper grid 100 are approved for installation as spare parts.
(ii) Diamond Aircraft Airplane Flight Manual Temporary Revision Performance Data DA 42 AFM TR-MÄM-42-111/a, dated September 20, 2005, Revision 3 to the AFM, or any future revision that incorporates the same information, must remain part of Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH Aircraft Airplane Flight Manual DA 42, Doc. 7.01.05-E.
Note: This AD differs from the MCAI and/or service information as follows: (1) The MCAI and service bulletin require the insertion of Diamond Aircraft Airplane Flight Manual Temporary Revision Performance Data DA 42 AFM TR-MÄM-42-111/a, dated September 20, 2005, Revision 3 to the Airplane Flight Manual, or any future revision that incorporates the same information into the Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH Aircraft Airplane Flight Manual DA 42, Doc. 7.01.05-E, immediately upon receipt. We consider immediately upon receipt as an urgent safety of flight compliance time, and we do not consider this unsafe condition to be an urgent safety of flight condition. Because we do not consider this unsafe condition to be an urgent safety of flight condition, we issued this action through the normal notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) AD process followed by this final rule. The time of 60 days after August 10, 2007 (the effective date of this AD) is an adequate compliance for this AD action and met the FAA requirements of an NPRM followed by a final rule. (2) Paragraphs A)i) and B)i) of the MCAI, state to assure that AFM TR-MAM-42-103, distributed with DAI MSB42-005, is inserted into AFM Doc. 7.01.05-E, rev. 2 or earlier revision. This AFM requirement was for an MCAI on which the United States did not take AD action. The action is no longer necessary when the actions in this AD are done. Therefore, the action is not being mandated in the U.S. AD action. (3) The MCAI references revision 2 of the AFM. The FAA AD references revision 3.
The aircraft, engines and makers this AD names, by the model designations in its text. A model listed here may still be outside the AD's serial ranges.
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