Is AD 2007-05-15 a recurring Airworthiness Directive?

Yes — AD 2007-05-15 requires a repetitive inspection every 100 hours. Next-due depends on the aircraft's time in service.

Which aircraft does AD 2007-05-15 apply to?

AD 2007-05-15 applies to Teledyne Continental Motors — models GTSIO-520. Serial/part conditions may narrow it to specific aircraft.

Airworthiness Directive 2007-05-15

recurring

Official AD 2007-05-15 · FR doc E7-3832 · 2007-03-12 · reciprocating engine

Airworthiness Directives; Teledyne Continental Motors GTSIO-520 Series Reciprocating Engines

What this AD requires

The FAA is superseding an existing airworthiness directive (AD) for Teledyne Continental Motors (TCM) GTSIO-520 series reciprocating engines. That AD currently requires initial and repetitive visual inspections of the starter adapter assembly and crankshaft gear and unscheduled visual inspections of the starter adapter assembly and crankshaft gear due to a rough-running engine. That AD also requires replacement of the starter adapter shaft gear needle bearing with a certain bushing and installation of a certain TCM service kit at the next engine overhaul, or at the next starter adapter replacement, whichever occurs first. This AD requires performing the inspection ordered in paragraph (h) of this AD every 100 hours time-in- service (TIS), or annually. This proposed AD results from an error discovered in AD 2005-20-04. We are issuing this AD to failure of the starter adapter assembly and or crankshaft gear, resulting in failure of the engine and possible forced landing.

Repetitive inspection. Re-inspect every 100 hours. The next-due date/hours depend on this aircraft’s time in service — a records report computes it from the logbooks.

Which aircraft AD 2007-05-15 applies to

MakesTeledyne Continental Motors

ModelsGTSIO-520

Installed in but not limited to Twin Commander (formerly Aero Commander) model 685, Cessna model 404, 411 series, 421 series, British Aerospace Aircraft Group Scottish Division model B.206 series 2, and Aeronautica Macchi model AM-3 airplanes.

Whether AD 2007-05-15 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 2007-05-15 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.