# AD 69-09-02: Aileron Control System

- Type: Airworthiness directive
- Status: Current
- Products: Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount 744, Viscount 745D and Viscount 810
- Effective: May 29, 1969
- Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD
- Product type: Aircraft, Large airplane
- Amendment: 39-760
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/258424C1248BFF9A862569A40056D024.0001
- DRS record last changed: May 30, 2024
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/69-09-02

## The airworthiness directive

69-09-02 VICKERS: Amdt. 39-760. Applies to Viscount Models 744, 745D, and 810 Series airplanes.

Compliance required within the next 1,000 hours' time in service after the effective date of this AD, unless already accomplished.

To prevent the jamming of the aileron control system due to small objects entering the control column housings through lightening holes in the housings, install covers P/N's 70133- 807, 809, 811, and 813 over the housings in accordance with British Aircraft Corp. Modification D.3223 Issue 2 dated August 10, 1968 (700 Series) or Modification FG.2098 Issue 2 dated August 20, 1968 (800/810 Series) or later ARB-approved issues or an equivalent approved by the Chief, Aircraft Certification Staff, FAA Europe, Africa, and Middle East Region.

This amendment becomes effective May 29, 1969.

## Affected data sheets (1) (OpenAirDocs)

The type certificate data sheets whose models the AD names.

- [TCDS A-814](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A-814): Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft Limited); names 3 of 3 models: Viscount 810, Viscount 744, Viscount 745D

## 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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