AD 2024-26-02

final rule
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Airworthiness Directives; Various Airplanes and Helicopters

AD Number
2024-26-02
Status
final_rule
Effective Date
Product Category
aircraft
Docket
Docket No. FAA-2024-0996
FR Citation
90 FR 8673

Applicability

TypeManufacturerModelDetails
aircraft Various Various Airworthiness Directives; Various Airplanes and Helicopters

Unsafe Condition

The cracking on the buckle handle was caused by a material process issue and could result in occupants not being able to release the buckle in certain emergency landing conditions.

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Required Actions

Inspect each buckle handle for a crack, unless already done, and revise the applicability to plastic buckles with a date of manufacture on or before May 31, 2007, or buckles whose date of manufacture cannot be determined, except not those buckles repaired with the installation of an airworthy buckle handle after May 31, 2007, and marked with a BLUE logo on the center button. Use the revised service bulletin to accomplish these requirements and add a special flight permit limitation.

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Compliance Time

Before further flight

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Affected Aircraft

Pacific Scientific Company buckles part numbers 1111430 and 1111475, all dash numbers, installed on but not limited to Bombardier Inc., Learjet Inc., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Textron Aviation, Inc. (type certificate previously held by Cessna Aircraft Company), and Viking Air Limited (type certificate previously held by de Havilland, Inc.) model airplanes and Airbus Helicopters (type certificate previously held by Eurocopter France) model helicopters.

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Retrieved: Apr 6, 2026

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