# AD 90-09-11: Evacuation Slides

- Type: Airworthiness directive
- Status: Current
- Products: Boeing 737-300 Series and 737-400 Series
- Effective: June 4, 1990
- Superseded by: Nothing supersedes this AD
- Product type: Aircraft, Large airplane
- Amendment: 39-6588
- Docket: 90-NM-05-AD
- Registered aircraft: 30 may be affected, by airframe or engine model (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/35E726E06DC1AE9B8625696000485CFE.0001
- DRS record last changed: May 30, 2024
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ad/90-09-11

## The airworthiness directive

90-09-11 BOEING: Amendment 39-6588. Docket No. 90-NM-05-AD.

Applicability: Model 737-300 and -400 series airplanes, equipped with Air Cruisers Company forward door evacuation slides identified in paragraph 1A of Air Cruisers Service Bulletin 103-25-17, dated November 10, 1989, certificated in any category.

Compliance: Required within 3 years after the effective date of this AD, unless previously accomplished.

To assure that forward door evacuation slides will automatically inflate when needed, accomplish the following:

A. Modify affected slides by installing a frangible link in accordance with Air Cruisers Service Bulletin 103-25-17, dated November 10, 1989.

B. An alternate means of compliance or adjustment of the compliance time, which provides an acceptable level of safety, may be used when approved by the Manager, Seattle Aircraft Certification Office, FAA, Northwest Mountain Region.

NOTE: The request should be forwarded through an FAA PrincipalMaintenance Inspector (PMI), who will either concur or comment, and then send it to the Manager, Seattle Aircraft Certification Office.

C. Special flight permits may be issued in accordance with FAR 21.197 and 21.199 to operate airplanes to a base in order to comply with the requirements of this AD.

All persons affected by this directive who have not already received the appropriate service documents from the manufacturer may obtain copies upon request to Air Cruisers Company, P.O. Box 180, Belmar, New Jersey, 07719-0180. These documents may be examined at the FAA, Northwest Mountain Region, Transport Airplane Directorate, 17900 Pacific Highway South, Seattle, Washington, or Seattle Aircraft Certification Office, 9010 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, Washington.

This amendment (39-6588, AD 90-09-11) becomes effective on June 4, 1990.

## Affected data sheets (1) (OpenAirDocs)

The type certificate data sheets whose models the AD names.

- [TCDS A16WE](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A16WE): The Boeing Company; names 2 of 17 models: 737-300 Series, 737-400 Series

## 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: 30 (30 by airframe model, 0 by engine model)
- Makers: Boeing 30

Models with the most aircraft:

- [Boeing 737-400](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-400): 8 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Boeing 737-436](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-436): 6 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Boeing 737-300](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-300): 4 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Boeing 737-490](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-490): 3 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Boeing 737-484](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-484): 3 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Boeing 737-301](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-301): 1 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Boeing 737-401](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-401): 1 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Boeing 737-306](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-306): 1 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Boeing 737-319](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-319): 1 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Boeing 737-330](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-330): 1 aircraft (airframe model)
- [Boeing 737-405](https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-405): 1 aircraft (airframe model)

All 11 models: https://openairdocs.org/ad/90-09-11/models.md
Every aircraft: https://openairdocs.org/ad/90-09-11/aircraft.md

Its text cites no advisory circulars or STCs.

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