# AD 48-03-06: Bushings Installation

- Type: Airworthiness directive
- Status: Current
- Products: Scotts-Bell 47 47B and 47B3
- Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD
- Product type: Aircraft, Rotorcraft
- Registered aircraft: 1 may be affected, by airframe or engine model (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/F4A4285EACB97FF686256A4D004F6CC8.0001
- DRS record last changed: May 30, 2024
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/48-03-06

## The airworthiness directive

48-03-06 BELL: Applies to All 47B Series Through Serial Number 78.

Compliance required at next 25-hour inspection.

If the play between the two bolts which connect links 47-612-048, to the side and aft sprag systems and the adapter plate, exceeds 0.010 inch, bushing 78B6-8-11 should be added to the tube assembly fittings and the clevis end of the link; bushings 75B6-8-11-5 should be added to the opposite end of the link; and bushings 75B6-8-8, 47-612-053-1 or 47-612-053-2 should be installed in the adapter plate.

(Bell Service Bulletin 47C62 dated December 2, 1947, covers this subject and gives more detailed reaming and dimensional information.)

## Affected data sheets (1) (OpenAirDocs)

The type certificate data sheets whose models the AD names.

- [TCDS H-1](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/H-1): Scott's-Bell 47 Inc; names 2 of 9 models: 47B, 47B3

## Registered aircraft it may apply to (OpenAirDocs)

Matched by airframe and engine model; the AD's applicability may narrow it by serial number, part number or equipment.

- Aircraft: 1 (1 by airframe model, 0 by engine model)
- Makers: Bell 1

Models with the most aircraft:

- [Bell 47B](https://openairdocs.org/model/bell-47b): 1 aircraft (airframe model)

All 1 models: https://openairdocs.org/ad/48-03-06/models.md
Every aircraft: https://openairdocs.org/ad/48-03-06/aircraft.md

Its text cites no advisory circulars or STCs.

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