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FAA Mandates Rudder Replacements For Thousands Of Piper Aircraft

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a final airworthiness directive (AD) requiring the replacement of rudders on specific Piper series aircraft. The AD, effective March 20, 2025, addresses safety concerns stemming from reports of rudder failures due to fatigue and corrosion in rudder posts made from 1025 carbon steel.

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Lower Cost Piper Rudder Fix In The Works

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The AD, which mandates replacement of the rudders with posts made of , covers almost all 31,000 high wing Pipers produced up until the 1960s but the final number affected will be much lower because of fleet attrition and retrofits already completed. “What we are proposing is to run a reamer up the rudder post.

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JAL Boeing 787 wing collides with tail of Delta Boeing 737 in Seattle: video

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However, as the right outboard section of the wing on the JAL 787 reaches abeam the rear of the Delta jet, it strikes the rudder of the latter, deflecting the rudder to the left before coming to a sudden stop. Video and images posted online appear to show the JAL aircraft taxying past the Delta 737 from right to left.

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Washington plane crash: critical data rests inside submerged Black Hawk wreckage

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Parts that have been salvaged in the last 48 hours include the right wing, center fuselage, part of the left wing and left fuselage, significant portions of the forward cabin and cockpit, vertical and horizontal stabilizers, tail cone, rudder, elevators, TCAS computer and quick access recorder.

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Safety alert: NTSB ‘uncertain’ number of Boeing 737s flying with impaired part  

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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued an urgent safety recommendation to Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) following an incident at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in February 2024, when the rudder pedals jammed on a United Airlines 737 MAX 8.

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Building a Rudder at Zenith

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When Zenith Aircraft CEO Sebastien Heintz invited me to attend the company’s annual homecoming event at its Missouri headquarters at the Mexico Memorial Airport (KMYJ) … Read More "Building a Rudder at Zenith" The post Building a Rudder at Zenith appeared first on Plane & Pilot Magazine.

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Defective part may be installed on Boeing 737s flown by 40 non-US carriers: NTSB

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On August 28, 2024, Boeing notified the NTSB that 25 US-registered planes have or had an affected SVO-730 rudder rollout guidance actuator installed. According to the NTSB, this was despite the FAA knowing that two similar incidents to the United Airlines 737 MAX 8 rudder situation in February 2024 occurred with foreign operators in 2019.

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