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Priority Letter: Bell Helicopter Textron Model 204B, 205A, and 205A-1 Helicopters

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  • Corporate Creators:
    United States. Federal Aviation Administration
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  • Resource Type:
    Tech Report
  • Geographical Coverage:
    United States
  • Corporate Publisher:
    United States. Federal Aviation Administration
  • NTL Classification:
    NTL-AVIATION-AVIATION ; NTL-AVIATION-Aviation Safety/Airworthiness
  • Abstract:
    This priority letter Airworthiness Directive (AD) is prompted by an accident involving the inflight failure of the tailboom vertical fin spar (vertical fin spar) on a Model 205A-1 helicopter. Two other accidents on restricted category (military surplus) aircraft of similar type design have occurred. One of the accidents resulted in a fatality. In 1971 the FAA issued AD 71-21-02 which addressed this problem by requiring a terminating action of adding a steel doubler to the inside edge of the vertical fin spar. There have been several additional failures since that AD was issued. A large number of high-power events can cause fatigue cracks which will cause the vertical fin spar to fail. This condition, if not corrected, could result in in-flight failure of the vertical fin spar and subsequent loss of control of the helicopter.
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    urn:sha256:b7cb41632490f777e9c33dfdd583e06b2817f196933404f6f06f01737843df81
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