Airworthiness Directives; Leonardo S.p.a. Helicopters
What happened
The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Leonardo S.p.a. Model AW189 helicopters. This AD was prompted by reports of cracking on the ejector ducts. This AD requires repetitively inspecting the left-hand (LH) side and right-hand (RH) side ejector ducts, including the exhaust bracket reinforcements and reinforcement plates, and, depending on the results, replacing any affected…
Quoted from FAA design approval and airworthiness documents in the Federal Register, 30 July 2026, under that publisher's own terms. US government work, public domain, 59 of 120 words quoted.
The facts
- What happened
- Airworthiness directive
- When
- 30 July 2026
- The company
- Leonardo, OEM
- Market segment
- Other
- Subject
- MRO and aftermarket
- Where the entry came from
- Found in the public record
- First in the record
- 16 August 2026
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LeonardoOEM
Helicopters and rotorcraft · Maintenance, repair and overhaul · Space subsystems
4 entries in the record, this one included
What else the record holds on Leonardo
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- FAA design approval and airworthiness documents in the Federal Register, 30 July 2026
- The original
- Read the originalfederalregister.gov/…/airworthiness-dire…
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