AD 2021-09-09

final rule
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Airworthiness Directives; Uninsured United Parachute Technologies, LLC Parachutes

AD Number
2021-09-09
Status
final_rule
Effective Date
Product Category
aircraft
Docket
Docket No. FAA-2021-0336
FR Citation
86 FR 21185

Unsafe Condition

reserve pin covers catching on the parachute container flaps and preventing the reserve parachute from deploying

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Required Actions

modifying the bottom tuck tab of the RPC on the parachute container, replacing the RPC on the parachute container

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Compliance Time

Before further flight

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Affected Aircraft

UPT Vector 3 SE containers manufactured between May 1, 2013, and January 31, 2021, in any of the following sizes: V3SE-360-1, V3SE-360-2, V3SE-360-3, V3SE-361, V3SE-364, and V3SE-364-1

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