56-21-01: Hydraulic Boost Cylinders
FAA order 56-21-01 is an airworthiness directive. The FAA's subject line: Hydraulic Boost Cylinders. 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: heating, ice protection and utility systems.
What it applies to as the FAA lists it
- Kind of product
- Aircraft
- Makes
- Scotts-Bell 47 Inc
- Models
- 47G, 47G-2, 47H-1
- 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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56-21-01 BELL: Applies to All Models 47G, 47G2, and 47H1 Helicopters Except As Noted Below and All Spare Hydraulic Boost Power Cylinders Part Numbers 1090, 1190 and All 1270 Cylinders Prior to and Including Serial Number 733. Model 47G, Serial Numbers 1530 and 1687 and Up; Model 47G2, Serial Numbers 1494, 1505, 1506, 1508, 1617 and Up; and Model 47H1, Serial Numbers 1534 and Up Will be Modified Prior to Delivery.
Compliance required as indicated.
Malfunctioning of the hydraulic boost cylinder in service has necessitated the replacement of the hydraulic boost power cylinder barrels and clamps in the fore and aft and lateral cyclic boost power cylinder units and the establishment of a service life of 100 hours on the cylinders which have not been modified. These hydraulic boost cylinder barrels must be replaced by the time 100 hours service is obtained, except barrels that have already accumulated 100 hours service prior to the date of this directive may be used until 125hours are obtained or until December 1, 1956, whichever occurs first.
(Detail procedures for installation of cylinder barrel P/N 1097 and clamps P/N 1029 are contained in Bell's Mandatory Service Bulletin No. 114 dated August 27, 1956.)
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/56-21-01.json · aircraft systems.
