Is AD 2025-23-52 a recurring Airworthiness Directive?

No — AD 2025-23-52 is a one-time directive. Verify it was complied with in the aircraft's records.

Which aircraft does AD 2025-23-52 apply to?

AD 2025-23-52 applies to Airbus Helicopters — models EC130B4, EC130T2, EC130. Serial/part conditions may narrow it to specific aircraft.

Airworthiness Directive 2025-23-52

one-time

Official AD 2025-23-52 · FR doc 2025-20575 · 2025-11-21 · airframe

Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Helicopters

What this AD requires

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Airbus Helicopters Model EC130B4 and EC130T2 helicopters. The FAA previously sent this AD as an emergency AD to all known U.S. owners and operators of these helicopters. This AD was prompted by a determination that the service life limit of the center shaft assembly needs to be corrected because a crack could initiate on the center shaft assembly. This AD requires replacing the center shaft assembly with a serviceable center shaft assembly (either a shaft with another part number (P/N) or the same P/N with lower hours time-in-service (TIS)). This AD also prohibits installing a center shaft assembly that is not a serviceable center shaft assembly on any helicopter. The FAA is issuing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.

Which aircraft AD 2025-23-52 applies to

MakesAirbus Helicopters

ModelsEC130B4, EC130T2, EC130

Whether AD 2025-23-52 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 2025-23-52 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.