Cessna 350 / Cessna 400

"nobody" wrote in
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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Cessna is now selling the Columbia 350 and 400 as the Cessna 350
and 400. If you want to order one, talk to me. :-)

Seriously, 350 and 400? Might be a little confusing for the owners
of certain twins.

Or when an IA looks up ADs for a Cessna 400 and finds a Spar AD for
the 'Cessna 400 series'




Is that the way the AD is written? Not specific to type? The 400s
were very
varied machines and I doubt the spars were common to all of them..

I'm sure the details get into specific serial numbers, but looking at
the summary of this AD:

Docket No. 96-CE-46-AD; Amendment 39-9884; AD 97-01-13

Airworthiness Directives; Cessna 100, 200, 300, and 400 Series
Airplanes

Preamble Information

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT

ACTION: Final rule; request for comments

SUMMARY: This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) that
applies to Cessna Aircraft

Company (Cessna) 100, 200, 300, and 400 series airplanes.




Mm, yeah, could get messy if you have an idiot AI doing your annual.
"Sorry, but the AD has to be done", But Billy Joe Bob, the 400 isn;t
really a Cessna and doesn;t even have a metal spar!"
"Don';t matter, sez here it;s gotta be done, so it;'s gotta be done"

A friend of mine had this sort of encounter with some tit of an AI who
looked at his wood spars and condemnde them because he found logitudinal
splits. If he'd bothered to look at the converging grain, he would have
seen that it was a lminated spar and he was looking at the glue line....


Bertie