Airworthiness

Production inspections expand as limited Boeing airworthiness certificate authority resumes for 737 MAX and 787 under FAA control.

After a cabin ground fire destroyed a first-generation Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet, the FAA issued emergency airworthiness directive AD 2020-03-50, which grounds the fleet of jets until faulty audio amplifier circuit cards are removed from the cabin.  In the aircraft that melted on the ramp, the FAA wrote in its AD that the pilot observed […]