47-32-12: Control Disc Links
FAA order 47-32-12 is an airworthiness directive. The FAA's subject line: Control Disc Links. It names Bell 47: about 478 aircraft on the U.S. register today, though an order usually covers particular versions or serial numbers rather than every one. System: other and general.
What it applies to as the FAA lists it
- Kind of product
- Aircraft
- Makes
- Scotts-Bell 47 Inc
- Models
- 47B, 47B3
- On this site
- Bell 47 478 registered
Dates and paperwork
- Docket
- Unknown
- Status
- Current
- The FAA's document
- Read the order on the FAA's site
The order itself the regulatory text, as published
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47-32-12 BELL: (Was Mandatory Note 12 of AD-1H-1.) Applies to Models 47B and 47B3 Helicopters.
Compliance required not later than the next 25-hour inspection after September 15, 1947.
In order to provide more strength in the lateral cycle control system, the disc links should be replaced with forward and aft links, 47-725-047.
(Bell Service Bulletin 47C35 dated June 18, 1947, also covers this same subject.)
Related safety bulletins advice on the same designs, not orders
2001-02-09SW-01-13 ·
Source: FAA Dynamic Regulatory System, airworthiness directives. The FAA's document is the authority; the register counts are this site's, from the FAA register of November 6, 2026. Connections as data: /graph/directive/47-32-12.json · aircraft systems.