AD 2025-02528
Published 2025-02-13 · 63 models · 12,975 US-registered tails affected · Federal Register
Airworthiness Directives; FS 2001 Corp, FS 2002 Corporation, FS 2003 Corporation, Piper, and Piper Aircraft, Inc. Airplanes Federal Register ↗
Abstract
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain FS 2001 Corp, FS 2002 Corporation, FS 2003 Corporation, Piper, and Piper Aircraft, Inc. (Piper) airplanes. This AD was prompted by reports of broken rudders. This AD requires replacing any rudder equipped with a rudder post made from a certain carbon steel with a rudder equipped with a rudder post made from a certain low-alloy steel. The FAA is issuing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.
Applicability · by US fleet size
- PIPER J3C-65 TCDS A-691 3,187 tails
- PIPER PA-18-150 TCDS 1A2 2,066 tails
- PIPER PA-12 TCDS A-780 1,241 tails
- PIPER PA-22-150 TCDS 1A6 1,198 tails
- PIPER PA-22-108 TCDS 1A6 587 tails
- PIPER PA-18 TCDS 1A2 478 tails
- PIPER PA-22-160 TCDS 1A6 456 tails
- PIPER PA-11 TCDS A-691 439 tails
- PIPER PA-22-135 TCDS 1A6 409 tails
- PIPER PA-22 TCDS 1A6 277 tails
- PIPER PA-20 TCDS 1A4 276 tails
- PIPER PA-16 TCDS 1A1 275 tails
- PIPER J5A TCDS A-725 268 tails
- PIPER PA-18-135 TCDS 1A2 220 tails
- PIPER J3L-65 TCDS A-698 179 tails
- PIPER PA-15 TCDS A-800 166 tails
- PIPER PA-18A TCDS 1A2TCDS AR-7 152 tails
- PIPER J3F-65 TCDS A-692 127 tails
- PIPER J4A TCDS A-703 125 tails
- PIPER J-3 TCDS ATC 660 104 tails
- PIPER PA-14 TCDS A-797 99 tails
- PIPER PA-17 TCDS A-805 98 tails
- PIPER PA-18-125 TCDS 1A2 91 tails
- PIPER PA-25 TCDS 2A8 60 tails
- PIPER PA-18A-135 TCDS 1A2TCDS AR-7 52 tails
- PIPER J4E TCDS A-740 45 tails
- PIPER PA-20-135 TCDS 1A4 42 tails
- PIPER L-21B 28 tails
- PIPER J3C-65S TCDS A-691 27 tails
- PIPER J3F-50 TCDS A-692 22 tails
- PIPER J5C TCDS A-725 19 tails
- PIPER J4 TCDS A-703 15 tails
- PIPER PA-19 TCDS 1A2 15 tails
- PIPER J3L TCDS A-698 14 tails
- PIPER L-18C 13 tails
- PIPER J3C-50 TCDS A-691 13 tails
- PIPER J3F-60 TCDS A-692 13 tails
- PIPER J4F TCDS TC 721 9 tails
- PIPER PA-22S-150 TCDS 1A6 8 tails
- PIPER L-21A 6 tails
- PIPER PA-18S-150 TCDS 1A2 6 tails
- PIPER PA-18AS-125 TCDS 1A2 5 tails
- PIPER PA-12S TCDS A-780 5 tails
- PIPER J5B TCDS A-725 5 tails
- PIPER PA-18S TCDS 1A2 4 tails
- PIPER PA-22S-135 TCDS 1A6 4 tails
- PIPER PA-11S TCDS A-691 4 tails
- PIPER PA-18S-135 TCDS 1A2 3 tails
- PIPER AE-1 TCDS A-725 3 tails
- PIPER PA-18S-125 TCDS 1A2 2 tails
- PIPER PA-20S-135 TCDS 1A4 2 tails
- PIPER J5A-80 TCDS A-725 2 tails
- PIPER L-21 1 tails
- PIPER J3L-65S TCDS A-698 1 tails
- PIPER J4A-S TCDS A-703 1 tails
- FLEET 80 1 tails
- PIPER PA-18AS-135 TCDS 1A2 1 tails
- UNKNOWN UNKNOWN 1 tails
- PIPER PA-20S TCDS 1A4 1 tails
- PIPER PA-20-115 TCDS 1A4 1 tails
- PIPER PA-18-135(L-21B) TCDS 1A2 1 tails
- PIPER PA-22S-160 TCDS 1A6 1 tails
- PIPER J3C-50S TCDS A-691 1 tails
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 29 (Thursday, February 13, 2025)] [Rules and Regulations] [Pages 9507-9515] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-02528]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 39
[Docket No. FAA-2023-1893; Project Identifier AD-2023-00389-A; Amendment 39-22944; AD 2025-02-11] RIN 2120-AA64
Airworthiness Directives; FS 2001 Corp, FS 2002 Corporation, FS 2003 Corporation, Piper, and Piper Aircraft, Inc. Airplanes
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain FS 2001 Corp, FS 2002 Corporation, FS 2003 Corporation, Piper, and Piper Aircraft, Inc. (Piper) airplanes. This AD was prompted by reports of broken rudders. This AD requires replacing any rudder equipped with a rudder post made from a certain carbon steel with a rudder equipped with a rudder post made from a certain low-alloy steel. The FAA is issuing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.
DATES: This AD is effective March 20, 2025.