Airworthiness Directive · Amendment 39-10516 · Raytheon Aircraft Company Models B200, B200C, and B200T Airplanes
Raytheon Aircraft Company Models B200, B200C, and B200T Airplanes
The following model and serial number airplanes, certificated in any category: Model Serial Nos. B200................................... BB-1439, BB-1444 through BB- 1447, BB-1449, BB-1450, BB- 1452, BB-1453, BB-1455, BB- 1456, and BB-1458 through BB- 1512; B200C.................................. BL-139 and BL-140; B200C (C-12R).......................... BW-1 through BW-5; and B200T.................................. BT-35 through BT-38.
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain Raytheon Aircraft Company (Raytheon) Models B200, B200C, and B200T airplanes (formerly referred to as Beech Models B200, B200C, and B200T airplanes). This AD requires replacing the wiring for the engine fire detector system with fire resistant wiring. This AD is the result of the discovery during aircraft production of the potential for the existing engine fire detector system wiring on the affected airplanes to fail because of high heat and/or fire. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent failure of the engine fire detector system if high heat and/or fire stopped an electrical signal between the engine fire detectors and the engine fire warning annunciator lights located in the cockpit, which could result in passenger injury in the event of an airplane fire.
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.
