The FAA has published an Airworthiness Directive affecting an estimated 2,147 Cessna twin-engine airplanes, requiring the owners or operators of high time aircraft to inspect the spar caps, and if cracks are found, replace the carry-through spar.So effectively, every oil change, there will be an additional AMU for a spar inspection, with the chance of another 73+ AMUs to fix it. Having a spar fail in flight could be a Very Bad Thing.
On the other hand, decent 400-series Cessnas are a half-mil or so. Those will be fixed. But the flying beaters will more likely be parted out and scrapped, or pushed back into Corrosion Row.
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Nice timing. An optimistic idiot I work with bought a 421 last year with the intent to fly it to build time and use for commercial activity for a few years. After getting it home, it stayed in the hanger 6 months while they straightened shit out on it and the paperwork. He was just plotting his entry into commercial work, whoops...
Could they be fitted out as drones under remote control?
I know of an idiot who bought a cabin-class twin without a pre-buy because "it looked nice."
It wasn't.
This one was pretty as shit...and was shit underneath...I can’t wait to hear about this.
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