Cessna 525A — Airworthiness Directives & records checklist
280 Cessna 525As are on the U.S. registry. Here’s what a records review covers for one — the Airworthiness Directives that apply, the known trouble spots, and the checklist a buyer or owner should hold every logbook against.
Airworthiness Directives that apply to the Cessna 525A
- one-timeAD 05-16530 — Airworthiness Directives; The Cessna Aircraft Company Models 525, 525A, and 525B Airplanes · 2005-08-23
The FAA adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain The Cessna Aircraft Company (Cessna) Models 525, 525A, and 525B airplanes. This AD requires you to install identification sleeves on the wiring for both engine fire extinguisher bottles. This AD results from reports of…
This is the applicability list. Which of these are complied with, their computed next-due dates, and the 13 serial/mod-conditional ADs that actually apply to your aircraft come from its digitized logbooks — that’s the verified report.
Known trouble spots on the 525A
Many Hartzell and McCauley constant-speed props carry blade-shank or hub ADs plus a calendar/hours overhaul interval; blade corrosion and hub grease leaks are common findings. Confirm the prop AD status and last overhaul against the interval.
On Citation-family jets verify landing-gear overhaul currency and, where fitted, thrust-reverser/attenuator inspection compliance, plus the engine program status. These are the recurring high-cost inherited items.
The records checklist for a Cessna 525A
Enter a tail number and Tailplate reads its logbooks against this list — every AD matched to compliance evidence, next-due dates computed, damage history pulled, and a records-adjusted value.
Look up a tail number →or see the free AD listApplicability is derived from the FAA directive corpus and the aircraft’s type certificate; it is advisory and not a legal airworthiness determination. Compliance is established only from an aircraft’s actual records.