# AD 71-05-06: Main Landing Gear

- Type: Airworthiness directive
- Status: Current
- Products: Aerostar PA-60-600 (Aerostar 600) and PA-60-601 (Aerostar 601)
- Effective: April 5, 1971
- Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD
- Product type: Aircraft, Small airplane
- Amendment: 39-1164
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/ABC4E13C5F7ADCEA862569970058328E.0001
- DRS record last changed: May 30, 2024
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/71-05-06

## The airworthiness directive

71-05-06 AEROSTAR: Amdt. 39-1164. Applies to Models 600 and 601. Serial numbers 60-0001 through 60-0056 and 61-0001 through 61-0070.

Compliance required within the next 100 hours time in service after the effective date of this AD or at the next annual inspection, unless already accomplished.

To prevent collapse of the main landing gear, replace the main landing gear sidebrace assemblies in accordance with Instructions I, II, III and IV of Aerostar Service Bulletin No. 600- 21, dated December 29, 1970, or an equivalent method approved by the Chief, Engineering and Manufacturing Branch, Federal Aviation Administration, Southwest Region, Fort Worth, Texas.

This amendment becomes effective April 5, 1971.

## Affected data sheets (1) (OpenAirDocs)

The type certificate data sheets whose models the AD names.

- [TCDS A17WE](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A17WE): Aerostar Aircraft Corporation; names 2 of 5 models: PA-60-601 (Aerostar 601), PA-60-600 (Aerostar 600)

## 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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