AD 57-08-06

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Horizontal Stabilizer

Key Information
57-08-06
Active
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Applicability
["Aircraft"]
["Large Airplane"]
Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft Limited)
Viscount 744 Viscount 745D
Regulatory Text

57-08-06 VICKERS: Applies to Viscount 744 and 745 Type Aircraft.

Compliance required as indicated.

In view of a recent horizontal stabilizer buckling incident compliance with the following is required:

1. Effective immediately the following placard must be installed in full view of the pilot: "TURBULENT AIR PENETRATION-165-KNOTS-FLAPS UP-LANDING GEAR UP." (This placard required regardless of compliance with item 2.)

2. Compliance required by August 31, 1957, with Vickers Modification D.1906. This modification introduces new horizontal stabilizer skin panels of 18 gage, Specification L.73 material between Stations 34.36 and 99.13 in lieu of the 20-gage panels of Specification L.72.

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