61-23-02: Elevator Tab Tension Rods
FAA order 61-23-02 is an airworthiness directive in force since November 3, 1961. The FAA's subject line: Elevator Tab Tension Rods. System: flight controls.
What it applies to as the FAA lists it
- Kind of product
- Aircraft
- Makes
- Bombardier Inc.
- Models
- CL-44D4
Dates and paperwork
- In force since
- November 3, 1961
- 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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61-23-02 CANADAIR: Amdt. 362 Part 507 Federal Register November 3, 1961. Applies to all CL-44D4 aircraft.
Compliance required as indicated.
To preclude failure of the elevator tab tension rods, P/N 28-90031, the life of each rod is limited to 450 hours' time in service. Every 450 hours' time in service, all eight tension rods of the elevator tab system must be replaced with similar parts supplied by Canadair or FAA approved equivalent. For those aircraft with more than 450 hours' time in service on the effective date of this AD, rods must be replaced within the next 25 hours' time in service.
When the rods are replaced and detuned in accordance with the procedures in Canadair Service Bulletin No. CL44D4-201 Issue 2, the replacement time is increased to 10,000 hours' time in service.
(Canadair Service Bulletins Nos. CL44D4-190, and CL44D4-201 Issue 2 apply to this subject.)
This directive effective November 3, 1961.
Revised June 23, 1962.
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/61-23-02.json · aircraft systems.