Is AD 2022-08-12 a recurring Airworthiness Directive?

Yes — AD 2022-08-12 requires a repetitive inspection. Next-due depends on the aircraft's time in service.

Which aircraft does AD 2022-08-12 apply to?

AD 2022-08-12 applies to The Boeing Company — models 757-200, 757-200PF, 757-200CB, 757-300, 757. Serial/part conditions may narrow it to specific aircraft.

Airworthiness Directive 2022-08-12

recurring

Official AD 2022-08-12 · FR doc 2022-09663 · 2022-05-06 · airframe

Airworthiness Directives; The Boeing Company Airplanes

What this AD requires

The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2020-21- 17, which applied to all The Boeing Company Model 757 airplanes. AD 2020-21-17 required repetitive inspections for skin cracking and shim migration at the upper link drag fittings, diagonal brace cracking, and fastener looseness; and applicable on-condition actions. This AD was prompted by reports of bolt rotation in the engine drag fitting joint and fastener heads and cracks found in the skin of the fastener holes, and the need to reduce the compliance time for certain groups. This AD retains the requirements of AD 2020-21-17 with reduced compliance times for certain airplane groups. The FAA is issuing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.

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

Which aircraft AD 2022-08-12 applies to

MakesThe Boeing Company

Models757-200, 757-200PF, 757-200CB, 757-300, 757

Text notes that installation of Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) ST01518SE does not affect the ability to accomplish the actions required by this AD; a 'change in product' alternative method of compliance provision applies for airplanes with that STC installed (source applicability text truncated).

Whether AD 2022-08-12 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:

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 2022-08-12 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.