82-09-53: Swashplate Drive Links
FAA order 82-09-53 is an airworthiness directive in force since August 19, 1982. The FAA's subject line: Swashplate Drive Links. It names Bell 222: about 21 aircraft on the U.S. register today, though an order usually covers particular versions or serial numbers rather than every one. System: rotorcraft systems.
What it applies to as the FAA lists it
- Kind of product
- Aircraft
- Makes
- Bell Helicopter Textron, A Division of Textron Canada
- Models
- 222
- On this site
- Bell 222 21 registered
Dates and paperwork
- In force since
- August 19, 1982
- Docket
- 82-ASW-24
- 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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82-09-53 BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON, INC.: Amendment 39-4434. Applies to Model 222 helicopters certificated in all categories that are equipped with swashplate drive links, Part No. 222-010-460-101. (Airworthiness Docket No. 82-ASW-24.)
Compliance required as indicated, unless already accomplished.
To prevent possible link failure due to excessive bearing wear in the main rotor swashplate drive links and possible link cracks, accomplish the following installation.
Before further flight, after the effective date of this AD, install swashplate drive links, Part No. 222-011-416 or 222-018-034 in place of swashplate drive links 222-010-460-101 as prescribed in Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. Technical Bulletin 222-81-41, dated September 1, 1981, or by an equivalent procedure approved by Chief, Aircraft Certification Division, Federal Aviation Administration, Southwest Region.
This AD supersedes and cancels AD No. T82-09-52.
This amendment becomes effective August 19, 1982, to all persons except those to whom it was made immediately effective by telegraphic AD T82-09-53 issued April 27, 1982, which contained this amendment.
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 26, 2026. Connections as data: /graph/directive/82-09-53.json · aircraft systems.