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Airworthiness Directive 97-19599

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AD 97-19599 · 1997-07-28 · airframe

Airworthiness Directives; British Aerospace (Jetstream) Model 4101 Airplanes

What this AD requires

This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that is applicable to certain British Aerospace (Jetstream) Model 4101 airplanes. This action requires repetitive detailed visual inspections to detect cracks of the shear cleats of the roller guide structural support of the passenger door, and replacement of any cracked shear cleat with a new shear cleat. This action also provides for an optional terminating modification that constitutes terminating action for the repetitive inspections. This amendment is prompted by a report indicating that fatigue cracking was found in the roller guide shear cleats of the passenger door. The actions specified in this AD are intended to detect and correct such fatigue-related cracking, which could result in structural failure of the passenger door, and consequent rapid depressurization of the airplane or loss of the passenger door while the airplane is in flight.

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 97-19599 applies to

MakesBritish Aerospace (Jetstream)
Models4101

certain

Whether AD 97-19599 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 97-19599 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.