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Airworthiness Directive 2000-06-10

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Official AD 2000-06-10 · FR doc 00-7552 · 2000-03-30 · airframe

Airworthiness Directives; Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Model 407 Helicopters

What this AD requires

This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) applicable to Bell Helicopter Textron Canada (BHTC) Model 407 helicopters. This action requires preflight checking and repetitively inspecting the tail boom for a crack and replacing the tail boom if a crack is found. This amendment is prompted by four reports of cracks on the tail boom in the area of the horizontal stabilizer. The actions specified in this AD are intended to prevent separation of the tail boom and subsequent loss of control of the helicopter.

Repetitive inspection. Re-inspect every 50 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 2000-06-10 applies to

MakesBell Helicopter Textron Canada
Models407

Tail boom crack inspection (daily visual check, plus repetitive 10X-magnification inspection for tail booms with 600+ hours TIS). Per Bell Alert SB 407-99-26, dated Apr 13, 1999.

Whether AD 2000-06-10 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 2000-06-10 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.

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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.