Airworthiness Directive 78-14-03
one-timeAD 78-14-03 · 1978-01-01 · airframe
Airworthiness Directives; not being fully seated and secured to the vertical stabilizer during assembly, accomplish the following: (a) Modify The horizontal
Which aircraft AD 78-14-03 applies to
MakesNot Being Fully Seated And Secured To Vertical Stabilizer During Assembly Accomplish Following Modify Horizontal Stabilizer Attachment Fitting By Adding A Plastic Pin East Region Revise
ModelsDG-100
Whether AD 78-14-03 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 78-14-03 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 →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.