RST Engineering wrote:
Thanks, Ross, but that's just the aircraft data file, not the AD or SB
files.

Jim

As a rule, the SBs are considered "proprietary" by the vendor and not
freely published. For example, if you want the list of SBs from Piper,
you pay a premium. But you can get them. If you are the registered
owner, the manufacturer is "supposed" to provide the ones relevant
to you.

As for the ADs, each and every one (airframe, powerplant, appliance, et)
are on the FAAs website. Airframe and powerplant are easy to find. It;s
all the appliances, e.g. starters, instruments, etc.

The companies that make money on this are providing the "value" by
making it easier to search for stuff, that's all.

Now, if you're in the A&P and/or IA business and need a collection of
these things, then you may be forced to buy the service or hire
someone to do the searches for you.

Very time-consuming, I might add. I've done the searches for everything
on my cherokee and it was NOT simple. Step one is to identify each
and every item that potentially can have an AD or something. This
meant going thru 37 years of log books, tracking each and every
change. Serial numbers, models, vendor, manufacturer, and so on for
every single silly thing.

Then I could search the AD list for relevant info.

On the other hand, it was something to do last winter when no one
came for 3 days to plow and I was stuck at home. Another advantage
to being out of work. Lots of time to do this.