48-03-06: Bushings Installation
FAA order 48-03-06 is an airworthiness directive. The FAA's subject line: Bushings Installation. 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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48-03-06 BELL: Applies to All 47B Series Through Serial Number 78.
Compliance required at next 25-hour inspection.
If the play between the two bolts which connect links 47-612-048, to the side and aft sprag systems and the adapter plate, exceeds 0.010 inch, bushing 78B6-8-11 should be added to the tube assembly fittings and the clevis end of the link; bushings 75B6-8-11-5 should be added to the opposite end of the link; and bushings 75B6-8-8, 47-612-053-1 or 47-612-053-2 should be installed in the adapter plate.
(Bell Service Bulletin 47C62 dated December 2, 1947, covers this subject and gives more detailed reaming and dimensional information.)
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/48-03-06.json · aircraft systems.