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AD 58-18-03 ACTIVE

Flap Chain Tensioner Locking
Key Information
AD Number 58-18-03 Status Active
Effective Date Not specified Issue Date Not specified
Docket Number Unknown Amendment N/A
Product Type ["Aircraft"] Product Subtype ["Large Airplane"]
CFR Part --- - Part 39 CFR Section N/A
Citation This information is not available.
Applicability
Manufacturer(s) Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft Limited)
Model(s) Viscount 744 Viscount 745D
Regulatory Text

58-18-03 VICKERS: Applies to All Viscount 700 Series Aircraft.

Compliance required by November 1, 1958.

Following a recent case of damage to Nos. 1 and 2 flaps, beams and telescopic rods caused by a flap chain tensioner barrel becoming completely unscrewed on No. 1 flap chain, Vickers-Armstrongs recommends the wirelocking of flap chain tensioners on Nos. 1, 2 and 3 flaps.

The British Air registration Board considers this mandatory. The FAA concurs with this action and considers compliance therewith mandatory.

(Vickers-Armstrongs Modification D.2554 covers this subject.)