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AD 2014-20-15 Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Helicopters, Inc. (Previously Eurocopter France) Helicopters
Applicability*9
This AD supersedes AD 2012-02-13, Amendment 39-16936 (77 FR 5994, February 7, 2012).
Compliance
(1) Within 10 hours time-in-service (TIS): (i) Inspect the right-hand side of the junction frame for cracks in the web from the inside as depicted in Details C and D of Figure 2 of Airbus Helicopters Emergency Alert Service Bulletin No. 53A019, Revision 1, dated April 15, 2014 (EASB). (ii) Strip the paint around the entire circumference of the junction frame as depicted in Detail E of Figure 3 of the EASB. Apply a coat of primer to the stripped area. Apply varnish to the stripped area. (iii) Inspect the stripped area of the frame for cracks from the outside. (2) Thereafter at intervals not to exceed 40 hours TIS, inspect the frame by following the inspection requirements of paragraphs (f)(1)(i) and (f)(1)(iii) of this AD. (3) If there is a crack, before further flight, replace the junction frame with an airworthy junction frame. (4) Do not install a tailboom that does not incorporate MOD 073880 on any helicopter.
Required actions
Special flight permits are prohibited.
Unsafe condition
You are responsible for performing each action required by this AD within the specified compliance time unless it has already been accomplished prior to that time.
Affected ADs
This AD defines the unsafe condition as cracks on the tailboom/Fenestron junction frame (junction frame). This condition could result in structural failure of the tailboom, detachment of the Fenestron, and subsequent loss of control of the helicopter.
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