Is AD 02-31752 a recurring Airworthiness Directive?

No — AD 02-31752 is a one-time directive. Verify it was complied with in the aircraft's records.

Which aircraft does AD 02-31752 apply to?

AD 02-31752 applies to Bell — models 206L, 206. Serial/part conditions may narrow it to specific aircraft.

Airworthiness Directive 02-31752

one-time

AD 02-31752 · 2002-12-23 · airframe

Airworthiness Directives; Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited Model 206L, L-1, L-3, and L-4 Helicopters

What this AD requires

This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for the specified Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited (BHTCL) model helicopters that currently requires removing the horizontal stabilizer supports and inspecting the edges of the tailboom skins around the horizontal stabilizer openings for a crack. This amendment requires checking and inspecting the tailboom for a crack and modifying or replacing the tailboom as necessary. This amendment also provides a terminating action, incorporates a more recent alert service bulletin (ASB), and increases the compliance time for performing the inspections. This amendment is prompted by several reports of cracks found during mandatory inspections. The actions specified by this AD are intended to detect a crack in the tailboom skin and to prevent separation of the tailboom and subsequent loss of control of the helicopter.

Which aircraft AD 02-31752 applies to

MakesBell

Models206L, 206

Part-conditional — 206-023-100.

Repetitive visual crack inspections (10-hr, then 5-hr) of tailboom skin around horizontal-stabilizer-support openings; within 50 hrs TIS, remove all four horizontal stabilizer supports P/N 206-023-100 (all dash numbers) and perform a one-time fluorescent-penetrant inspection; within 600 hrs TIS, inspect and modify the tailboom per Bell Helicopter Textron Canada ASB 206L-99-115 Rev F; post-modification repetitive inspection at 1,200-hr intervals.

Whether AD 02-31752 actually applies to your aircraft (by serial and installed parts) and whether it’s already complied with comes from that aircraft’s records.

Supersession

Supersedes AD 99-13-12.

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 02-31752 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.