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AD 65-04-02 ACTIVE

High Pressure Air Start System
Key Information
AD Number 65-04-02 Status Active
Effective Date March 19, 1965 Issue Date Not specified
Docket Number Unknown Amendment 39-34
Product Type ["Aircraft"] Product Subtype ["Large Airplane"]
CFR Part --- - Part 39 CFR Section N/A
Citation This information is not available.
Applicability
Manufacturer(s) The Boeing Company
Model(s) 707-100 Long Body 707-100B Long Body 707-100B Short Body 707-200 707-300 Series 707-300B Series 707-300C Series 707-400 Series 720 Series 720B Series
Regulatory Text

65-04-02\tBOEING: Amdt. 39-34 Part 39 Federal Register February 17, 1965. Applies to Models 707 and 720 Series Aircraft Equipped With an External High Pressure Air Start Connection. \n\n\tCompliance required as indicated. \n\n\tFailures of B-nuts on the high pressure air start system lines have occurred, resulting in whipping lines in the wheel well area. To correct this condition: \n\n\t(a)\tWithin 500 hours' time in service from the effective date of this AD, unless already accomplished, accomplish one of the following or an equivalent approved by the Aircraft Engineering Division, FAA Western Region: \n\n\t\t(1)\tReplace all NAS 596-16 B-nuts on the one-inch high pressure air lines in the 3,000 p.s.i. high pressure air start bottle system with AN 818-16 nuts and MS 20819-16 sleeves in accordance with Boeing Alert Service Bulletin No. 2009 dated May 15, 1964; \n\n\t\t(2)\tRelocate air pressure regulator Boeing P/N 10-3358-1 to a position on the high pressure air start bottle and deactivate the external high pressure air start connection; or \n\n\t\t(3)\tDeactivate the high pressure air start system by removing the high pressure air start bottles and the external high pressure air start lines and connection. \n\n\t(Boeing Alert Service Bulletin No. 2009 dated May 15, 1964, covers this subject.) \n\n\tThis directive effective March 19, 1965.