# AD 83-23-03: Balance Weight Attach Bracket Installation

- Type: Airworthiness directive
- Status: Current
- Products: Textron 77
- Effective: November 22, 1983
- Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD
- Product type: Aircraft, Small airplane
- Amendment: 39-4769
- Registered aircraft: 113 may be affected, by airframe or engine model (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/770E7C55E95A632D862569B30052BF6F.0001
- DRS record last changed: January 21, 2026
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/83-23-03

## The airworthiness directive

83-23-03 BEECH: Amendment 39-4769. Applies to Model 77 (serial numbers WA-1 through WA-312) airplanes, certificated in any category.

Compliance: Required within the next 25 hours time-in-service after the effective date of this AD, unless already accomplished.

To prevent loss of rudder control or flutter of the rudder, accomplish the following:

a) Install the balance weight attach bracket reinforcements provided in Beech Kit 77-4006-1S as identified in Beech Service Instructions No. 1256.

b) Airplanes may be flown in accordance with FAR 21.197 to a location where the AD may be accomplished.

c) An equivalent means of compliance with this AD may be used, if approved, by the Manager, Wichita Aircraft Certification Office, Room 238, Terminal Building 2299, Mid- Continent Airport, Wichita, Kansas 67209; telephone (316) 269-7000.

This amendment becomes effective on November 22, 1983.

## Affected data sheets (1) (OpenAirDocs)

The type certificate data sheets whose models the AD names.

- [TCDS A30CE](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A30CE): Textron Aviation Inc.; names 1 of 1 models: 77

## 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: 113 (113 by airframe model, 0 by engine model)
- Makers: Beech 113

Models with the most aircraft:

- [Beech 77](https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-77): 113 aircraft (airframe model)

All 1 models: https://openairdocs.org/ad/83-23-03/models.md
Every aircraft: https://openairdocs.org/ad/83-23-03/aircraft.md

Its text cites no advisory circulars or STCs.

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