53-24-03: Landing Gear Bellcrank
FAA order 53-24-03 is an airworthiness directive. The FAA's subject line: Landing Gear Bellcrank. 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: landing gear.
What it applies to as the FAA lists it
- Kind of product
- Aircraft
- Makes
- Mooney Mite Aircraft Corporation
- Models
- M-18L
- 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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53-24-03 MOONEY: Applies to All Model M-18L Aircraft Which Have Not Had the Landing Gear Bellcrank Cover Installed.
Compliance required by February 28, 1954.
In order to prevent baggage from jamming or fouling the landing gear retraction bellcrank P/N 35-1, install bellcrank covers, P/N 1028-1 with installing angles P/N 1028-2.
(Mooney Service Bulletin No. 12 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/53-24-03.json · aircraft systems.