# AD 51-10-02: Control Cable Inspection - Type: Airworthiness directive - Status: Current - Products: Don Luscombe Aviation History Foundation 8, 8A, 8B, 8C, 8D, 8E, 8F and T-8F - Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD - Product type: Aircraft, Small airplane - Registered aircraft: 1,458 may be affected, by airframe or engine model (OpenAirDocs) - FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/753960057D4AF2F486256A380063D291.0001 - DRS record last changed: May 30, 2024 - Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/51-10-02 ## The airworthiness directive 51-10-02 LUSCOMBE: Applies to All Model 8 Series Aircraft. Compliance required by the next periodic inspection, but not later than June 1, 1951, and at each annual recertification thereafter. Due to recurring failures of the control cables, all cables should be carefully inspected at each section which passes either over a pulley or through a fairlead. To properly inspect the cables, they should be removed from the airplane to the extent necessary to expose the sections to be inspected. Care should be taken that the method of inspection is not damaging to the cable; i.e., do not sharply bend any strand or the whole cable and do not "bird-cage" the cable to the extent of putting permanent set in the strands or the whole cable. Any unairworthy cables must be replaced. In reinstalling the control cables, the rigging of the entire control system should be checked and properly adjusted. The control surface travels may be obtained from Aircraft Specification A-694. Care should be taken that none of the cables drag across or rub against any structure or equipment due to misalignment of the fairleads. Luscombe Airplane Corp. Service Bulletin No. 1-51 furnishes further information on this subject and Luscombe Airplane Corp., Garland, Texas, should be contacted for further information, if needed, in rigging controls. ## Affected data sheets (1) (OpenAirDocs) The type certificate data sheets whose models the AD names. - [TCDS A-694](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A-694): Luscombe Aircraft Corporation; names 8 of 8 models: 8, 8D, 8A, 8F, 8B, 8E, 8C, T-8F ## 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: 1,458 (1,458 by airframe model, 0 by engine model) - Makers: Luscombe 1,445, Silvaire 10, Luscombe/Pedersen 1, Luscombe/Ranger Avia 1, Luscombe/Wilder 1 Models with the most aircraft: - [Luscombe 8A](https://openairdocs.org/model/luscombe-8a): 897 aircraft (airframe model) - [Luscombe 8E](https://openairdocs.org/model/luscombe-8e): 326 aircraft (airframe model) - [Luscombe 8F](https://openairdocs.org/model/luscombe-8f): 119 aircraft (airframe model) - [Luscombe 8C](https://openairdocs.org/model/luscombe-8c): 37 aircraft (airframe model) - [Luscombe T-8F](https://openairdocs.org/model/luscombe-t-8f): 25 aircraft (airframe model) - [Luscombe 8B](https://openairdocs.org/model/luscombe-8b): 16 aircraft (airframe model) - [Luscombe 8D](https://openairdocs.org/model/luscombe-8d): 14 aircraft (airframe model) - [Luscombe 8](https://openairdocs.org/model/luscombe-8): 11 aircraft (airframe model) - [Silvaire 8F](https://openairdocs.org/model/silvaire-8f): 10 aircraft (airframe model) - [Luscombe/Wilder 8A](https://openairdocs.org/model/luscombe-wilder-8a): 1 aircraft (airframe model) - [Luscombe/Ranger Avia 8A](https://openairdocs.org/model/luscombe-ranger-avia-8a): 1 aircraft (airframe model) - [Luscombe/Pedersen T-8F](https://openairdocs.org/model/luscombe-pedersen-t-8f): 1 aircraft (airframe model) All 13 models: https://openairdocs.org/ad/51-10-02/models.md Every aircraft: https://openairdocs.org/ad/51-10-02/aircraft.md Its text cites no advisory circulars or STCs. ## NTSB investigations that cite this AD (1) From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. - [NTSB CEN23LA170](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN23LA170), Apr 30, 2023: Luscombe 8F (N1113B), Palmer, TX, substantial damage. Probable cause: The installation of an unapproved rudder control cable, which resulted in a fatigue failure and subsequent loss of rudder control during cruise flight. Contributing to the accident was the mechanic’s… --- OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.