# AD 55-08-01: Safety Belt Buckles

- Type: Airworthiness directive
- Status: Current
- Products: Beech Safety Belt Buckles
- Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD
- Product type: Appliance
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/1891DD409E1944E586256A320056D2D2.0001
- DRS record last changed: May 30, 2024
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/55-08-01

## The airworthiness directive

55-08-01 BEECH SAFETY BELT BUCKLES: Applies to All Beech Safety Belt Buckles, P/N 113652.

Compliance required as soon as possible but not later than September 1, 1955.

Inspect Beech safety buckles by checking the buckle lever attachment pin for snap ring retainers installed at each end.

All Beech buckles with buckle lever dowel type attaching pin retainers in lieu of buckle lever attaching pins with snap ring retainers should be retired from service by replacement with the newer improved safety buckle with through pin and snap ring retainers.

(Beech Service Bulletin No. OS-55-1 issued January 25, 1955, covers this same subject.)

## Registered aircraft it may apply to (OpenAirDocs)

No registered aircraft matched the models it names.

Its text cites no advisory circulars or STCs.

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