AD 94-03-02

final rule
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Airworthiness Directives; Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 Series Turboprop Engines

AD Number
94-03-02
Status
final_rule
Effective Date
Product Category
engine
Docket
94-ANE-04
FR Citation
Federal Register: February 01, 1994 (Volume 59, Number 21)

Applicability

TypeManufacturerModelDetails
engine Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. PW118 Airworthiness Directives; Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 Series Turboprop Engines
engine Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. PW118A Airworthiness Directives; Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 Series Turboprop Engines
engine Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. PW120 Airworthiness Directives; Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 Series Turboprop Engines
engine Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. PW120A Airworthiness Directives; Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 Series Turboprop Engines
engine Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. PW121 Airworthiness Directives; Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 Series Turboprop Engines
engine Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. PW123 Airworthiness Directives; Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 Series Turboprop Engines
engine Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. PW124B Airworthiness Directives; Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 Series Turboprop Engines
engine Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. PW125B Airworthiness Directives; Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 Series Turboprop Engines

Unsafe Condition

High Pressure Turbine (HPT) disk failures in the rim region due to low cycle fatigue, which may result in uncontained engine failures and debris damage to the aircraft.

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Required Actions

Remove from service HPT disks (part numbers 3035711 and 3038411) based on cycles in service (CIS) and replace with serviceable parts following a drawdown schedule. Establish a new service cycle life limit of 10,000 total CIS for these disks.

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Compliance Time

Required as indicated in the schedule based on cycles in service (CIS) on the effective date of the AD (February 16, 1994).

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Affected Aircraft

Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) Model PW118, PW118A, PW120, PW120A, PW121, PW123, PW124B, and PW125B turboprop engines installed on various aircraft including de Havilland DHC-8, Embraer EMB-120, ATR-42/-72, Fokker 50, Canadair CL-215T/415, Dornier 328, British Aerospace ATP, and XAC Y7-200A.

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