Is AD 2000-02-32 a recurring Airworthiness Directive?

Yes — AD 2000-02-32 requires a repetitive inspection every 400 hours. Next-due depends on the aircraft's time in service.

Which aircraft does AD 2000-02-32 apply to?

AD 2000-02-32 applies to Eurocopter. Serial/part conditions may narrow it to specific aircraft.

Airworthiness Directive 2000-02-32

recurring

Official AD 2000-02-32 · FR doc 00-2401 · 2000-02-07 · airframe

Airworthiness Directives; Eurocopter France Model SA. 315B Helicopters

What this AD requires

This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to Eurocopter France Model SA. 315B helicopters, that currently requires initial and repetitive visual inspections and modification, if necessary, of the horizontal stabilizer spar tube (spar tube). This amendment requires the same corrective actions as the existing AD and would require an additional dye-penetrant inspection of the half-shell attachment clamps (clamps). This amendment is prompted by an in-service report of fatigue cracks that initiated from corrosion pits. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent fatigue failure of the spar tube, separation of the horizontal stabilizer and impact with the main or tail rotor, and subsequent loss of control of the helicopter.

Repetitive inspection. Re-inspect every 400 hours. The next-due date/hours depend on this aircraft’s time in service — a records report computes it from the logbooks.

Which aircraft AD 2000-02-32 applies to

MakesEurocopter

Part-conditional — 315A-07-0221571.

Addresses fatigue failure of the horizontal stabilizer spar tube (sister AD to 00-3223, different SB); inspect/modify per Eurocopter France SB No. 55.01 Rev 4. Specific model list is in a preceding applicability section not captured in this excerpt.

Whether AD 2000-02-32 actually applies to your aircraft (by serial and installed parts) and whether it’s already complied with comes from that aircraft’s records.

How AD compliance is recorded

A valid compliance record (14 CFR 43.9) states:

Method of compliance — The specific action taken (inspected, replaced, modified) and to what revision.

Date — When the work was done.

Aircraft time — Total time in service / tach at compliance — how recurring next-due is computed.

Signature & certificate — The A&P/IA who returned it to service, with certificate number.

Is AD 2000-02-32 complied with on your aircraft?

Tailplate reads a tail number’s logbooks and matches every applicable AD — including this one — to its compliance evidence, with recurring next-due dates computed.

Look up a tail number →Read the full directive (Federal Register)

Applicability is derived from the FAA directive corpus and is advisory, not a legal airworthiness determination. Compliance is established only from an aircraft’s actual records.