Airworthiness Directive · Amendment 39-21611 · Time limits/maintenance checks
Airbus SAS Airplanes
Superseded. A later AD replaced this one: AD 2022-09-06. Comply with the one in force.
This AD applies to Airbus SAS Model A350-941 and -1041 airplanes, certificated in any category, with an original airworthiness certificate or original export certificate of airworthiness issued on or before July 22, 2020.
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Airbus SAS Model A350-941 and -1041 airplanes. This AD was prompted by a determination that new or more restrictive airworthiness limitations are necessary. This AD requires revising the existing maintenance or inspection program, as applicable, to incorporate new or more restrictive airworthiness limitations, as specified in two European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) ADs, which are incorporated by reference. The FAA is issuing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.
Except as specified in paragraph (h) of this AD: Comply with all required actions and compliance times specified in, and in accordance with, European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) AD 2020-0211, dated October 5, 2020 (EASA AD 2020-0211); and EASA AD 2021-0026, dated January 20, 2021 (EASA AD 2021-0026). Where EASA AD 2021-0026 affects the same airworthiness limitations (tasks and life limits) as those in EASA AD 2020-0211, the airworthiness limitations referenced in EASA AD 2021-0026 prevail.
(1) Where EASA AD 2020-0211 and EASA AD 2021-0026 refers to its effective date, this AD requires using the effective date of this AD.
(2) The requirements specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of EASA AD 2020-0211 and EASA AD 2021-0026 do not apply to this AD.
(3) Paragraph (3) of EASA AD 2020-0211 and EASA AD 2021-0026 specifies revising “the approved AMP [aircraft maintenance program]” within 12 months after its effective date, but this AD requires revising the existing maintenance or inspection program, as applicable, to incorporate the “limitations, tasks and associated thresholds and intervals” specified in paragraph (3) of EASA AD 2020-0211 and EASA AD 2021-0026 within 90 days after the effective date of this AD.
(4) The initial compliance time for doing the tasks specified in paragraph (3) of EASA AD 2020-0211 and EASA AD 2021-0026 is at the applicable “thresholds” as incorporated by the requirements of paragraph (3) of EASA AD 2020-0211 and EASA AD 2021-0026, or within 90 days after the effective date of this AD, whichever occurs later.
(5) The provisions specified in paragraphs (4) and (5) of EASA AD 2020-0211 do not apply to this AD.
(6) The provisions specified in paragraph (4) of EASA AD 2021-0026 do not apply to this AD.
(7) The “Remarks” section of EASA AD 2020-0211 and EASA AD 2021-0026 does not apply to this AD.
After the existing maintenance or inspection program has been revised as required by paragraph (g) of this AD, no alternative actions (e.g., inspections) and intervals are allowed unless they are approved as specified in the provisions of the “Ref. Publications” section of EASA AD 2020-0211 or EASA AD 2021-0026.
Accomplishing the actions required by this AD terminates the repetitive greasing task for batch 02 group of affected thrust reverser actuators required by paragraph (g) of AD 2019-20-01.
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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