53-17-01: Control Stick Boot
FAA order 53-17-01 is an airworthiness directive. The FAA's subject line: Control Stick Boot. It names Mooney M-18: about 98 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
- Mooney Mite Aircraft Corporation
- Models
- M-18C, M-18C 55, M-18L, M-18LA
- On this site
- Mooney M-18 98 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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53-17-01 MOONEY: Applies to All Model M-18 Series Aircraft.
Compliance required by October 15, 1953.
To prevent possible fouling of controls and the control stick by foreign objects install canvas boot P/N 22-7 around control stick and secure to floor boards. These boots are available from Mooney Aircraft, Inc., Box 72, Kerrville, Texas.
(Mooney Service Bulletin No. 11 covers this same subject.)
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 October 5, 2026. Connections as data: /graph/directive/53-17-01.json · aircraft systems.