Airworthiness Directive · Amendment 39-9302 · Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft Limited) Airplanes
Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft Limited) Airplanes
This AD applies to Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft Limited) Viscount 744, Viscount 745D, Viscount 810.
The models as the FAA's AD index lists them. The serial ranges, installed parts and exceptions are in the AD itself: read it at the FAA.
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to all British Aerospace Model Viscount 744, 745D, and 810 airplanes, that requires repetitive inspections to detect discrepancies of certain fittings and the actuator beam structure of the nose landing gear, and replacement of discrepant parts. This amendment is prompted by reports of fatigue cracking of the undercarriage bracing of the nose wheel. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent such fatigue cracking, which could result in the failure of the structure and fittings, and subsequent collapse of the nose landing gear.
