# AD 63-15-06: Elevator Trim Tab Levers

- Type: Airworthiness directive
- Status: Current
- Products: Industrie Aeronautiche e Meccaniche P.166
- Effective: August 23, 1963
- Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD
- Product type: Aircraft, Small airplane
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/A271A841C9450EE586256A380060D382.0001
- DRS record last changed: May 30, 2024
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/63-15-06

## The airworthiness directive

63-15-06 PIAGGIO: Amdt. 591 Part 507 Federal Register July 24, 1963. Applies to Model P.166 Aircraft, Serial Numbers 1, through 403.

Compliance required within 25 hours' time in service after the effective date of this AD.

To preclude failure of the elevator trim tab control system and lever, P/N 5069, because of unsound welding seams, accomplish the following:

  (a) Inspect right and left levers, P/N's 5069.03 and 5069.02, respectively, for cracks or unsatisfactory machining in accordance with Piaggio Service Bulletin No. 166-30 dated February 1, 1963.

  (b) If any defects specified in the service bulletin are found, before further flight replace the lever with a lever inspected and found to have no defects.

This directive effective August 23, 1963.

## Affected data sheets (1) (OpenAirDocs)

The type certificate data sheets whose models the AD names.

- [TCDS 7A4](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/7A4): Industrie Aeronautiche e Meccaniche; names 1 of 4 models: P.166

## 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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