AD 2025-04-03

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Airworthiness Directives; The Boeing Company Airplanes

AD Number
2025-04-03
Status
final_rule
Effective Date
Product Category
engine
Docket
Docket No. FAA-2023-2235
FR Citation
90 FR 11124

Applicability

TypeManufacturerModelDetails
aircraft Boeing Company Airworthiness Directives; The Boeing Company Airplanes

Unsafe Condition

During an FBO event, primary exhaust nozzles that are not strengthened could depart the engine, potentially damaging a stabilizer or striking the fuselage and window. This condition, if not addressed, could result in loss of control of the airplane, or in a rapid decompression and hazard to window-seated passengers aft of the wing.

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Required Actions

An inspection or maintenance records check to determine if the primary exhaust nozzle has an affected part number and, for affected primary exhaust nozzles, an installation of bridge brackets onto the primary exhaust nozzle, or as an option, an installation of a serviceable primary exhaust nozzle. Revising the existing maintenance or inspection program, as applicable, to incorporate new airworthiness limitations.

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Compliance Time

Before further flight

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Affected Aircraft

The Boeing Company Model 737-600, -700, -700C, -800, -900, and -900ER series airplanes.

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Retrieved: Apr 6, 2026

Rights: U.S. Government Public Domain

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