# AD 65-18-01: Upper Fuselage Fabric

- Type: Airworthiness directive
- Status: Current
- Products: Maule Aerospace Technology Bee Dee M-4, M-4 and M-4-210
- Effective: August 17, 1965
- Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD
- Product type: Aircraft, Small airplane
- Amendment: 39-115
- Registered aircraft: 63 may be affected, by airframe or engine model (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/2AD2F7EF336B4E5F86256A380064907A.0001
- DRS record last changed: May 30, 2024
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/65-18-01

## The airworthiness directive

65-18-01 MAULE: Amdt. 39-115 Part 39 Federal Register August 19, 1965. Applies to Models Be Dee M-4, Serial Numbers 3 through 14; M-4, Serial Numbers 15 through 86; and M- 4-210, Serial Numbers 1001 through 1028 Airplanes.

Compliance required within the next 50 hours' time in service after the effective date of this AD unless already accomplished.

To prevent further failures of the attachment of the fuselage fabric to the windshield channel, install a metal reinforcement strip in accordance with Maule Service Letter No. 8, dated July 26, 1965, or later FAA-approved revision, or an FAA-approved equivalent.

This directive effective August 17, 1965.

## Affected data sheets (1) (OpenAirDocs)

The type certificate data sheets whose models the AD names.

- [TCDS 3A23](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/3A23): Maule Aerospace Technology Inc.; names 3 of 50 models: M-4-210, M-4, Bee Dee M-4

## 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: 63 (63 by airframe model, 0 by engine model)
- Makers: Maule 63

Models with the most aircraft:

- [Maule M-4](https://openairdocs.org/model/maule-m-4): 42 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Maule M-4-210](https://openairdocs.org/model/maule-m-4-210): 12 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Maule BEE DEE M-4-210](https://openairdocs.org/model/maule-bee-dee-m-4-210): 5 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Maule BEE DEE M-4](https://openairdocs.org/model/maule-bee-dee-m-4): 4 aircraft (airframe model)

All 4 models: https://openairdocs.org/ad/65-18-01/models.md
Every aircraft: https://openairdocs.org/ad/65-18-01/aircraft.md

Its text cites no advisory circulars or STCs.

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