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Airworthiness Directive 2009-15-05

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Official AD 2009-15-05 · FR doc E9-16465 · 2009-07-15 · airframe

Airworthiness Directives; Cessna Aircraft Company Models 208 and 208B Airplanes

What this AD requires

We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Cessna Aircraft Company (Cessna) Models 208 and 208B airplanes. This AD requires you to measure the roll and the yaw bridle cable tension (adjusting as necessary) and to torque the clamp screws. This AD results from two reported incidences of slack bridle cables with the swaged balls unseating from their drum recesses. We are issuing this AD to detect and correct loose bridle cable clamps, which could result in the swaged ball unseating from the recess in the servo drum and contacting the cable guard pin. This failure could lead to very limited control of the rudder and/or aileron with consequent loss of control.

Which aircraft AD 2009-15-05 applies to

MakesCessna
Models208, 208B
Serial-conditional — narrows to serials 20800500–20800504, 208B1216–208B1216, 208B2001–208B2001, 208B2003–208B2023, 208B2025–208B2029, 208B2031–208B2037, 208B2040–208B2040, 208B2042–208B2042, 208B2043–208B2043.

Addresses loose bridle cable clamps that could allow the swaged ball to unseat from the servo drum recess and contact the cable guard pin, resulting in very limited rudder and/or aileron control.

Whether AD 2009-15-05 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 2009-15-05 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.