Friday, February 16, 2018

And There Goes the 400-Series Twin Cessnas.

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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4 comments:

  1. CenterPuke882/16/2018 1:46 PM

    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...

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  2. Dark Avenger2/16/2018 1:58 PM

    Could they be fitted out as drones under remote control?

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  3. Comrade Misfit2/16/2018 2:32 PM

    I know of an idiot who bought a cabin-class twin without a pre-buy because "it looked nice."

    It wasn't.

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    1. CenterPuke882/16/2018 6:03 PM

      This one was pretty as shit...and was shit underneath...I can’t wait to hear about this.

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