# AD 82-05-06: Life Rafts

- Type: Airworthiness directive
- Status: Current
- Products: Air Cruisers Life Rafts
- Effective: March 31, 1982
- Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD
- Product type: Appliance
- Amendment: 39-4326
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/1B02892C223B4E7186256A3400620756.0001
- DRS record last changed: May 30, 2024
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/82-05-06

## The airworthiness directive

82-05-06 AIR CRUISERS COMPANY: Amendment 39-4326. Applies to life rafts P/N D23835-403, S/N 8624978 through 9925181.

Compliance required within 60 days after the effective date of this AD, unless already accomplished.

To prevent the need for excessive pull force to activate the gas release mechanism, accomplish the modifications described in paragraph 2 of Air Cruisers Company Service Bulletin 111-81-1, dated July 24, 1981.

An equivalent method of compliance may be approved upon request to the Chief, New York Aircraft Certification Office, ANE-170, Federal Aviation Administration, JFK International Airport, Jamaica, New York 11430.

Upon submission of substantiating data by an owner or operator through an FAA Maintenance Inspector, the compliance time of this AD may be adjusted by the Chief, New York Aircraft Certification Office, ANE-170, Federal Aviation Administration, JFK International Airport, Jamaica, New York 11430.

The manufacturer's Service Bulletinidentified and described in this directive is available upon request to Air Cruisers Company, P.O. Box 180, Belmar, New Jersey 07719. This document may also be examined at Federal Aviation Administration, New England Region, 12 New England Executive Park, Burlington, Massachusetts 01803.

This airworthiness directive becomes effective March 31, 1982.

## 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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