83-23-03: Balance Weight Attach Bracket Installation
FAA order 83-23-03 is an airworthiness directive in force since November 22, 1983. The FAA's subject line: Balance Weight Attach Bracket Installation. System: other and general.
What it applies to as the FAA lists it
- Kind of product
- Aircraft
- Makes
- Textron Aviation Inc.
- Models
- 77
Dates and paperwork
- In force since
- November 22, 1983
- 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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83-23-03 BEECH: Amendment 39-4769. Applies to Model 77 (serial numbers WA-1 through WA-312) airplanes, certificated in any category.
Compliance: Required within the next 25 hours time-in-service after the effective date of this AD, unless already accomplished.
To prevent loss of rudder control or flutter of the rudder, accomplish the following:
a) Install the balance weight attach bracket reinforcements provided in Beech Kit 77-4006-1S as identified in Beech Service Instructions No. 1256.
b) Airplanes may be flown in accordance with FAR 21.197 to a location where the AD may be accomplished.
c) An equivalent means of compliance with this AD may be used, if approved, by the Manager, Wichita Aircraft Certification Office, Room 238, Terminal Building 2299, Mid- Continent Airport, Wichita, Kansas 67209; telephone (316) 269-7000.
This amendment becomes effective on November 22, 1983.
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/83-23-03.json · aircraft systems.