Airworthiness Directive · Amendment 39-21662 · Time limits/maintenance checks
Airbus SAS Airplanes
Superseded. A later AD replaced this one: AD 2023-04-06. Comply with the one in force.
This AD applies to the following Airbus SAS airplanes, certificated in any category, with an original airworthiness certificate or original export certificate of airworthiness issued on or before June 10, 2020:
(1) Model A318-111, -112, -121, and -122 airplanes;
(2) Model A319-111, -112, -113, -114, -115, -131, -132, -133, -151N, and -153N airplanes;
(3) Model A320-211, -212, -214, -216, -231, -232, -233, -251N, -252N, -253N, -271N, -272N, and -273N airplanes; and
(4) Model A321-111, -112, -131, -211, -212, -213, -231, -232, -251N, -252N, -253N, -271N, -272N, -251NX, -252NX, -253NX, -271NX, and -272NX airplanes.
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Airbus SAS Model A318 series airplanes; Model A319-111, -112, - 113, -114, -115, -131, -132, -133, -151N, and -153N airplanes; Model A320 series airplanes; and Model A321 series 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 a European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) AD, which is incorporated by reference. The FAA is issuing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.
Revise the existing maintenance or inspection program, as applicable, by incorporating task(s) and associated thresholds and intervals specified in paragraph (3) of European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) AD 2020-0219, dated October 12, 2020 (EASA AD 2020-0219), except you are required to incorporate task(s) and associated thresholds and intervals within 90 days after the effective date of this AD. Record a compliance time for the initial tasks of either the applicable “thresholds” incorporated by the requirements of paragraph (3) of EASA AD 2020-0219 or 90 days after the effective date of this AD, whichever would occur later.
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 2020-0219.
Accomplishing the actions required by this AD terminates the corresponding requirements of AD 2020-22-16, for the tasks identified in the service information referred to in EASA AD 2020-0219 only.
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.
