52-10-01: Electric Power System
FAA order 52-10-01 is an airworthiness directive. The FAA's subject line: Electric Power System. It names Curtiss Wright C-46: about 8 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
- Airlift International, Inc.; Curtiss-Wright Corporation; Flying Tiger Line, Inc.; L. B. Smith Aircraft Corporation; Skyways International Trading and Transport Co.; Tempo Design Corporation
- Models
- C-46A, C-46D, C-46F, C-46R, C-46E, C-46A, C-46D, C-46E, C-46F, C-46A, C-46D, C-46F, C-46F, C-46/CW20-T, Super C-46/CW20-T
- On this site
- Curtiss Wright C-46 8 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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52-10-01 CURTISS-WRIGHT: Applies to all Model C-46 aircraft.
Compliance required as soon as possible, but not later than August 1, 1952.
To provide circuit protection for the leads to both ammeters in the electric power system, the following shall be accomplished:
In those aircraft having the ammeter shunts in the positive generator leads, install a circuit breaker or fuse in each ammeter lead as close as practicable to the shunt.
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/52-10-01.json · aircraft systems.