Airworthiness Directive 2002-07-12
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What this AD requires
This amendment supersedes an existing airworthiness directive (AD), that is applicable to General Electric Company (GE) CF6-80A, CF6- 80C2, and CF6-80E1 series turbofan engines. That AD currently requires revisions to the Life Limits Section of the manufacturer's Instructions for Continued Airworthiness (ICA) to include required inspection of selected critical life-limited parts at each piece-part exposure. This amendment adds additional mandatory inspections for certain high pressure compressor (HPC), low pressure turbine (LPT), and high pressure turbine (HPT) parts. The mandatory inspections are needed to identify those critical rotating parts with conditions, which if allowed to continue in service, could result in uncontained failures. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent critical life- limited rotating engine part failure, which could result in an uncontained engine failure and damage to the airplane.
Which aircraft AD 2002-07-12 applies to
Manufacturer name itself is not printed in this excerpt (only the "CF6-80A Engines" table header appears; General Electric inferred from the well-known CF6 designation). Text lists affected rotating parts as "All" P/N, including Fan Rotor Stage 1 disk, fan forward/mid shafts, HPC rotor stage 1/2 disks, HPC rotor stage 3-9/11-14 spools, HPC rotor stage 10 disk, and rotating CDP seal (list cut off in source). Requires adding mandatory piece-part-opportunity inspections (fluorescent-penetrant/eddy-current/magnetic-particle per engine manual) to the ICA Life Limits section and approved maintenance program, to prevent critical life-limited rotating part failure.
Whether AD 2002-07-12 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.