Airworthiness Directive 2000-22-13
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What this AD requires
This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Bell Helicopter Textron Canada (BHTC) Model 430 helicopters that requires calibration of the fuel quantity indicating system. This amendment is prompted by an operator report of an inaccurate fuel quantity indicating system. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent an inaccurate fuel quantity indicating system reading, engine flameout due to fuel starvation, and a subsequent forced landing.
Which aircraft AD 2000-22-13 applies to
Requires calibrating the fuel quantity indicating system per Bell Helicopter Textron ASB 430-99-13 and inserting revised BHT-430-MM-10 Chapter 95 into the maintenance manual, to prevent inaccurate fuel quantity readings and possible engine flameout from fuel starvation. Model identified via Bell 430-specific SB/maintenance-manual references. Related Transport Canada AD CF-2000-04.
Whether AD 2000-22-13 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:
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.