Cabin Equipment/Furnishings

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FAA Aviation Safety SPECIAL AIRWORTHINESS INFORMATION BULLETIN SUBJ: Cabin Equipment/Furnishings SAIB: NM-15-02 Date: November 6, 2014 This is information only. Recommendations aren’t mandatory.

Introduction

This Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin advises owners and operators of a possible discrepancy in the flammability properties of certain interior furnishings, modified or supplied by Jet Aviation Basel (JBSL). This bulletin applies to certain The Boeing Company Model 707, 727, 737, 747 and 767 airplanes; Airbus Model A319 and A320 series airplanes; Bombardier Model BD-700-1A10, and BD-700-1A11 airplanes; Dassault Aviation Model MYSTERE-FALCON 50, MYSTERE-FALCON 900, FALCON 2000, and FALCON 7X airplanes; and Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Model G-1159, G-IV, and GV airplanes.

Due to the limited number of airplanes, the combination of events necessary to cause a problem, and the regular updates to cabin interiors, the airworthiness concern is not an unsafe condition that would warrant airworthiness directive (AD) action under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) part 39.

Background

A quality review revealed a deviation in the traceability of flammability tests for cabinets manufactured by JBSL and installed on certain airplanes delivered between 1998 and 2009. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which is the Technical Agent for the Member States of the European Community, has issued EASA Airworthiness Directives (ADs) 2013-0106, dated May 14, 2013; and 2014-0082, dated April 1, 2014. These ADs were issued to address a potential discrepancy between flammability test samples and the parts the samples represented. In summary, the actual parts may have been constructed without a fire retardant that was used in the fabrication of the test samples. Therefore, the flammability characteristics of the affected parts may not be what were intended. These EASA ADs can be accessed on the Internet at http://ad.easa.europa.eu/ad/2013- 0106 , and http://ad.easa.europa.eu/ad/2014-0082.

In addition to the airplanes identified in the EASA ADs above, the following eight airplanes with FAA-approved Supplemental Type Certificates (STC) are affected.

Airplane Models Serial Number Registration STC Number The Boeing Company Model 737-700 29441 N88WR ST10000SC The Boeing Company Model 737-800 32451 HZ-102 ST10127SC The Boeing Company Model 737-800 33473 A6-AUH ST10477SC The Boeing Company Model 747-400 26906 A6-MMM ST02371NY The Boeing Company Model 747-SP 22750 HZ-AIJ ST01881NY The Boeing Company Model 767-300ER 33425 P4-MES ST10373SC Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Model GV 555 VP-BSJ ST01879AT-D Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Model GV 577 HB-IVZ STC020060AT-D

2 JBSL and Dassault Aviation developed a corrective action program which includes instructions for reworking the cabinet interiors for airplanes which lack appropriate fire retardant.

Dassault Aviation has issued the following service bulletins for the affected airplanes:

• F50-513, Revision 1, dated January 31, 2013. • F50-514, dated November 20, 2012. • F900-422, Revision 1, dated January 31, 2013. • F900-423, dated November 20, 2012. • F900EX-390, Revision 3, dated October 8, 2013. • F900EX-394, Revision 1 dated October 8, 2013. • F2000-374, Revision 2, dated January 31, 2013. • F2000-392, dated November 20, 2012. • F2000EX-247, Revision 2, dated January 31, 2013. • F2000EX-262, dated November 20, 2012. • F7X-172, Revision 1, dated January 31, 2013. • F7X-173, dated November 20, 2012.

Recommendations

The FAA recommends that all owners and operators of the affected airplanes follow the instructions in the applicable service information and, at the earliest opportunity (e.g., during the next major interior refurbishment), rework or replace any parts not having the appropriate fire retardant. For airplanes with no specific service instructions, the FAA recommends operators contact JBSL for guidance on how to confirm the presence of fire retardant.

For Further Information Contact

Jeff Gardlin, Aerospace Engineer, Airframe and Cabin Safety Branch, ANM-115, Transport Airplane Directorate, FAA, telephone: 425-227-2136; fax: 425-227-1320; e mail: [email protected].

Tom Rodriguez, Aerospace Engineer, International Branch, ANM-116, Transport Airplane Directorate, FAA; telephone: 425-227-1137; fax: 425-227-1149; e-mail: [email protected].

For Related Service Information Contact

For Dassault airplanes: Dassault Customer Representative at Dassault Falcon Jet Corp., P.O. Box 1946, S Hackensack, NJ 07606-9946; or Dassault Aviation, 78 Quai Marcel Dassault Cedex 300, 92552 Saint-Cloud, Cedex, France; or for all other airplanes, Jet Aviation AG, Commercial Summary Flughafenstrasse H1/15, P.O. Box 214, CH-4030 Basel-EuroAirport, Switzerland.