# AD 67-29-01: Rudder Spar Web

- Type: Airworthiness directive
- Status: Current
- Products: Textron 56TC, 95-55, 95-A55, 95-B55 and 95-C55
- Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD
- Product type: Aircraft, Small airplane
- Amendment: 39-574
- Registered aircraft: 1,186 may be affected, by airframe or engine model (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/391C324BAE5B7E9586256E0100546577.0001
- DRS record last changed: January 21, 2026
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/67-29-01

## The airworthiness directive

67-29-01 BEECHCRAFT: Amendment 39-574. Applies to Model 95-55 (Serial Numbers TC-1 through TC-190), 95-A55 (Serial Numbers TC-191 through TC-501 except TC- 350 and TC-371), 95-B55 (Serial Numbers TC-371, TC-502 through TC-1042), 95-C55 (Serial Numbers TC-350, TE-1 through TE-451), and 56TC (Serial Numbers TG-1 through TG-51) airplanes with 250 hours' or more time in service.

Compliance required as indicated.

To detect cracks in the rudder spar web, within the next 25 hours' time in service after the effective date of this AD, unless already accomplished, and thereafter at intervals of not to exceed 250 hours' time in service from the date of the last inspection, accomplish the following:

  (a) Inspect visually the rudder spar web, in the area under and adjacent to the upper and the center hinge attach points.

  (b) If a crack is found during an inspection required by Paragraph (a), before further flight, accomplish one of the following -

  (1) Modify the rudderspar web in accordance with the method contained in Beechcraft Service Bulletin 67-34, Rev. 1, or any other method approved as an equivalent by the Chief, Engineering and Manufacturing Branch, Federal Aviation Administration, Central Region; or

  (2) Replace the rudder spar web with one that has been modified in accordance with Paragraph (b)(1) of this airworthiness directive.

  (c) When either the modification or replacement prescribed in Paragraph (b) of this AD have been accomplished, the inspections required by this airworthiness directive are no longer required.

Effective October 27, 1967.

Revised April 5, 1968.

## Affected data sheets (1) (OpenAirDocs)

The type certificate data sheets whose models the AD names.

- [TCDS 3A16](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/3A16): Textron Aviation Inc.; names 5 of 21 models: 95-B55, 95-A55, 95-C55, 95-55, 56TC

## 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: 1,186 (1,186 by airframe model, 0 by engine model)
- Makers: Beech 1,186

Models with the most aircraft:

- [Beech 95-B55 (T42A)](https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-95-b55-t42a): 774 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Beech 95-C55](https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-95-c55): 158 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Beech 95-A55](https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-95-a55): 90 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Beech 95-B55](https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-95-b55): 74 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Beech 95-55](https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-95-55): 53 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Beech 56TC](https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-56tc): 37 aircraft (airframe model)

All 6 models: https://openairdocs.org/ad/67-29-01/models.md
Every aircraft: https://openairdocs.org/ad/67-29-01/aircraft.md

Its text cites no advisory circulars or STCs.

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