Special Conditions; Fairchild Model SA227 Series Airplanes to Type Certificate \nNo. A8SW

This special conditions amendment is issued to become part of the type certification basis for new Fairchild Aircraft Corporation (FAC) Model SA227-PC airplanes to be added to Type Certificate No. A8SW. These airplanes will have novel or unusual design features associated with turbopropeller engine installations incorporating Automatic Power Reserve (APR) Systems for which the applicable airworthiness regulations do not contain adequate or appropriate safely standards. This amendment contains the additional safety standards which the Administrator finds necessary to establish a level of safety equivalent to that established in the regulation applicable to the SA227-PC airplane. A Notice of Proposed Special Conditions, Notice No. 23-ACE-6, was published in the Federal Register on September 6, 1984 (49 FR 35123) and one commenter, (FAC), responded to that notice.\n\nA similar set of special conditions were published as Notice of Proposed Special Conditions Notice No. 23-ACE-9 (49 FR 35121, September 6, 1984) for the British Aerospace Jetstream Model 3101 airplane. No comments were received in response to that notice. These special conditions were subsequently adopted as final special conditions and published in the Federal Register (50 FR 7, January 2, 1985), effective February 1, 1985.