AD 94-23552
Published 1994-09-30 · 18 models · 4,784 US-registered tails affected · Federal Register
Airworthiness Directives; Beech Aircraft Corporation 35 Series Airplanes Federal Register ↗
Abstract
This amendment supersedes Airworthiness Directive (AD) 57-18- 01 and AD 87-20-02 R1, which currently require several ruddervator checks and modifications on certain Beech Aircraft Corporation (Beech) 35 series airplanes. This action maintains the requirements of each of the superseded AD's and requires rebalancing the ruddervators (off the airplane) anytime the ruddervator is repaired or repainted (even if stripes are added). The required action imposes no new speed restrictions. Several incidents where empennage flutter occurred on the affected airplanes prompted this action. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent structural failure of the V-tail, which could result in loss of control of the airplane.
Applicability · by US fleet size
- BEECH V35B TCDS 3A15 913 tails
- BEECH S35 TCDS 3A15 459 tails
- BEECH V35 TCDS 3A15 425 tails
- BEECH V35A TCDS 3A15 321 tails
- BEECH P35 TCDS 3A15 319 tails
- BEECH C35 TCDS A-777 258 tails
- BEECH K35 TCDS 3A15 237 tails
- BEECH M35 TCDS 3A15 225 tails
- BEECH H35 TCDS 3A15 224 tails
- BEECH G35 TCDS A-777 224 tails
- BEECH J35 TCDS 3A15 221 tails
- BEECH F35 TCDS A-777 192 tails
- BEECH N35 TCDS 3A15 167 tails
- BEECH A35 TCDS A-777 160 tails
- BEECH B35 TCDS A-777 149 tails
- BEECH D35 TCDS A-777 142 tails
- BEECH E35 TCDS A-777 141 tails
- BEECH 35R TCDS A-777 7 tails
Compliance instructions
Required actions, compliance times, parts/serial numbers and methods of compliance are in the Federal Register publication — not paraphrased here. Read AD on Federal Register ↗