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Airworthiness Directive 2007-03-13

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Official AD 2007-03-13 · FR doc E7-1708 · 2007-02-12 · turboprop engine

Airworthiness Directives; Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG (formerly Rolls-Royce plc) Dart 528, 529, 532, 535, 542, and 552 Series Turboprop Engines

What this AD requires

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG (formerly Rolls-Royce plc) (RRD) Dart 528, 529, 532, 535, 542, and 552 series turboprop engines. This AD would require repetitive inspections of high pressure turbine (HPT) blade platforms and shrouds, and reworking the engines if the inspections reveal excessive gaps between blade shrouds. This AD results from reports of HPT disk rim failures. We are issuing this AD to prevent HPT disk rim failures resulting in the release of portions of the HPT disk, uncontained engine failure, and damage to the airplane.

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 2007-03-13 applies to

MakesRolls-Royce Deutschland
ModelsDart 528, Dart 529, Dart 532, Dart 535, Dart 542, Dart 552, Dart

Installed on but not limited to Hawker Siddeley Argosy AW.650, Fairchild Hiller F-27/F-27A/F-27B/F-27F/F-27G/F-27J, FH-227/227B/227C/227D/227E, Fokker F.27 (all makes), British Aircraft Corporation Viscount 744/745D/810, and Gulfstream G-159 airplanes.

Whether AD 2007-03-13 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 2007-03-13 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.