Is AD 2002-22-03 a recurring Airworthiness Directive?

Yes — AD 2002-22-03 requires a repetitive inspection every 12 months. Next-due depends on the aircraft's time in service.

Which aircraft does AD 2002-22-03 apply to?

AD 2002-22-03 applies to Pilatus — models PC-7. Serial/part conditions may narrow it to specific aircraft.

Airworthiness Directive 2002-22-03

recurring

Official AD 2002-22-03 · FR doc 02-27418 · 2002-11-01 · airframe

Airworthiness Directives; PILATUS Aircraft Ltd. Model PC-7 Airplanes

What this AD requires

This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain PILATUS Aircraft Ltd. (Pilatus) Model PC-7 airplanes. This AD requires you to repetitively inspect the main landing gear front attachment brackets for cracks, and, if cracks are found, install improved-design brackets. Installing the improved-design brackets terminates the required inspections. This AD is the result of mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) issued by the airworthiness authority for Switzerland. The actions specified by this AD are intended to detect and correct cracks in the main landing gear front attachment brackets, which could result in failure of the brackets. Such failure could lead to the main landing gear leg detaching from the wing main spar.

Repetitive inspection. Re-inspect every 12 months. The next-due date/hours depend on this aircraft’s time in service — a records report computes it from the logbooks.

Which aircraft AD 2002-22-03 applies to

MakesPilatus

ModelsPC-7

Specific serial/registration applicability (paragraph (a)) not present in retrieved text. Actions per Pilatus PC-7 Service Bulletin No. 57-004 Rev 1 (June 17, 2002), Service Bulletin No. 57-005 (Sept 10, 2001), and PC-7 Maintenance Manual Temporary Revision No. 05-10.

Whether AD 2002-22-03 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 2002-22-03 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.