AD 2025-22348
Published 2025-12-09 · 19 models · 976 US-registered tails affected · Federal Register
Airworthiness Directives; Airbus SAS Airplanes Federal Register ↗
Abstract
The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2022-15- 05, which applied to certain Airbus SAS Model A318 series airplanes; Model A319-111, -112, -113, -114, -115, -131, -132, and -133 airplanes; Model A320-211, -212, -214, -216, -231, -232, and -233 airplanes; and Model A321-111, -112, -131, -211, -212, -213, -231, and -232 airplanes. AD 2022-15-05 required repetitive high frequency eddy current (HFEC) inspections for cracks on the web horizontal flange and inner cap, and applicable corrective actions. Since the FAA issued AD 2022-15-05, additional cracks have been found at the door stop fitting number 1 holes at frame (FR) 68, after disassembly of the door stop fitting as part of the inspections required by AD 2022-15-05. This AD continues to require the actions in AD 2022-15-05, but with reduced compliances times for some inspections, and requires an additional inspection at door stop fitting number 1. The FAA is issuing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.
Applicability · by US fleet size
- AIRBUS A321-231 TCDS A28NM 250 tails
- AIRBUS A320-232 TCDS A28NM 190 tails
- AIRBUS A320-214 TCDS A28NM 162 tails
- AIRBUS A321-211 TCDS A28NM 101 tails
- AIRBUS SAS A321-213 TCDS A28NM 65 tails
- AIRBUS A319-115 TCDS A28NM 42 tails
- AIRBUS A319-132 TCDS A28NM 37 tails
- AIRBUS A319-114 TCDS A28NM 31 tails
- AIRBUS A319-112 TCDS A28NM 28 tails
- AIRBUS A319-111 TCDS A28NM 24 tails
- AIRBUS A320-233 TCDS A28NM 21 tails
- AIRBUS SAS A321-211 TCDS A28NM 6 tails
- AIRBUS A319-131 TCDS A28NM 5 tails
- AIRBUS A321-232 TCDS A28NM 4 tails
- AIRBUS A320-211 TCDS A28NM 3 tails
- AIRBUS A319-133 TCDS A28NM 2 tails
- AIRBUS A320-231 TCDS A28NM 2 tails
- AIRBUS A320-212 TCDS A28NM 2 tails
- AIRBUS SAS A321-212 TCDS A28NM 1 tails
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 234 (Tuesday, December 9, 2025)] [Rules and Regulations] [Pages 56969-56971] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-22348]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 39
[Docket No. FAA-2025-0758; Project Identifier MCAI-2024-00651-T; Amendment 39-23192; AD 2025-23-09] RIN 2120-AA64
Airworthiness Directives; Airbus SAS Airplanes
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2022-15- 05, which applied to certain Airbus SAS Model A318 series airplanes; Model A319-111, -112, -113, -114, -115, -131, -132, and -133 airplanes; Model A320-211, -212, -214, -216, -231, -232, and -233 airplanes; and Model A321-111, -112, -131, -211, -212, -213, -231, and -232 airplanes. AD 2022-15-05 required repetitive high frequency eddy current (HFEC) inspections for cracks on the web horizontal flange and inner cap, and applicable corrective actions. Since the FAA issued AD 2022-15-05, additional cracks have been found at the door stop fitting number 1 holes at frame (FR) 68, after disassembly of the door stop fitting as part of the inspections required by AD 2022-15-05. This AD continues to require the actions in AD 2022-15-05, but with reduced compliances times for some inspections, and requires an additional inspection at door stop fitting number 1. The FAA is issuing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.
DATES: This AD is effective January 13, 2026. The Director of the Federal Register approved the incorporation by reference of a certain publication listed in this AD as of January 13, 2026.