2025-03-09: Rudder Control System

1. The authority citation for part 39 continues to read as follows: Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701. 2. The FAA amends § 39.13 by adding the following new airworthiness directive: 2025-03-09 Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam S.P.A.: Amendment 39-22957; Docket No. FAA-2025-0202; Project Identifier MCAI-2024-00739-A. (a) Effective Date This airworthiness directive (AD) is effective March 3, 2025. (b) Affected ADs None. (c) Applicability This AD applies to Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam S.P.A. (Tecnam) Model P2010 and P2010 TDI airplanes, all serial numbers (S/Ns) up to and including S/N 317, certificated in any category, except those on which the Tecnam modification MOD2010/359 has been installed. (d) Subject Joint Aircraft System Component (JASC) Code 2720, Rudder Control System. (e) Unsafe Condition This AD was prompted by the disconnection of a rudder pedals torque tube from one of its hinges. The FAA is issuing this AD to address the unsafe condition. The unsafe condition, if not addressed, could result in the rudder pedals assembly slipping out of its housing, resulting in the inability of the flightcrew to maintain the safe flight and landing of the airplane and loss of control of the airplane. (f) Compliance Comply with this AD within the compliance times specified, unless already done. (g) Required Actions Within 25 hours time-in-service or 30 days, whichever occurs first after the effective date of this AD, modify your airplane by installing larger diameter retainer washers on the left-hand (LH) and right-hand (RH) rudder pedals torque tube hinges, installing new self-locking nuts, doing a functional or operating test of the system to ensure the retaining washers are installed properly and do not interfere with the lugs, and applying a torque stripe on the LH and RH nuts and bolts threads, in accordance with steps N 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of Appendix B, Accomplishment Instructions, in TECNAM Service Bulletin No. 817-CS-Ed. 1, Rev. 1, dated December 11, 2024. (h) Special Flight Permits A one-time special flight permit may be issued in accordance with 14 CFR 21.197 and 21.199 in order to fly to a maintenance base to perform the required action in this AD provided it is a non-revenue flight and limited to only essential flight crew. (i) Credit for Previous Actions You may take credit for the actions required by paragraph (g) of this AD if you performed those actions before the effective date of this AD using TECNAM Service Bulletin No. 817-CS-Ed. 1, Rev. 0, dated December 6, 2024. (j) Alternative Methods of Compliance (AMOCs) The Manager, International Validation Branch, FAA, has the authority to approve AMOCs for this AD, if requested using the procedures found in 14 CFR 39.19. In accordance with 14 CFR 39.19, send your request to your principal inspector or local Flight Standards District Office, as appropriate. If sending information directly to the manager of the International Validation Branch, send it to the attention of the person identified in paragraph (k)(1) of this AD and email to: AMOC@faa.gov. Before using any approved AMOC, notify your appropriate principal inspector, or lacking a principal inspector, the manager of the local flight standards district office/certificate holding district office. (k) Additional Information (1) For more information about this AD, contact Emma Copeland, Aviation Safety Engineer, FAA, 1600 Stewart Avenue, Suite 410, Westbury, NY 11590; phone: (678) 227-4257; email: Emma.M.Copeland@faa.gov. (2) Material identified in this AD that is not incorporated by reference is available at the address specified in paragraph (l)(3) of this AD. (l) Material Incorporated by Reference (1) The Director of the Federal Register approved the incorporation by reference (IBR) of the material listed in this paragraph under 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51. (2) You must use this material as applicable to do the actions required by this AD, unless the AD specifies otherwise. (i) TECNAM Service Bulletin No. 817-CS-Ed. 1, Rev. 1, dated December 11, 2024. (ii) [Reserved] (3) For Tecnam material identified in this AD, contact TECNAM Costruzioni Aeronautiche S.p.A., Via Maiorise, 81043 Capua CE, Italy; phone: +39 0823 997538; email: technical.support@tecnam.com; website: tecnam.com. (4) You may view this material at the FAA, Airworthiness Products Section, Operational Safety Branch, 901 Locust, Kansas City, MO 64106. For information on the availability of this material at the FAA, call (817) 222-5110. (5) You may view this material at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). For information on the availability of this material at NARA, visit www.archives.gov/federal-register/cfr/ibr-locations or email fr.inspection@nara.gov. Issued on February 7, 2025. Victor Wicklund, Deputy Director, Compliance & Airworthiness Division, Aircraft Certification Service. [FR Doc. 2025-02638 Filed 2-13-25; 8:45 am]BILLING CODE 4910-13-P