Continental I0-470 series
Service difficulty reports · 105
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duckdb -csv -c "SELECT sdr_id, difficulty_date, n_number, aircraft_make, aircraft_model, part_name, part_condition, jasc_code, discrepancy FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/faa_service_difficulty_report.parquet' WHERE engine_model_key = 'IO470' ORDER BY difficulty_date DESC"
Prints the whole list as CSV. It reads the release’s Parquet files over HTTPS, so there’s nothing to download first. Install DuckDB to run it.
SELECT sdr_id, difficulty_date, n_number, aircraft_make, aircraft_model, part_name, part_condition, jasc_code, discrepancy FROM 'https://openairdocs.org/data/latest/faa_service_difficulty_report.parquet' WHERE engine_model_key = 'IO470' ORDER BY difficulty_date DESC
Run it at the DuckDB prompt, or in any tool that reads Parquet over HTTPS. More ways to query the release are on Use the data.
SDR 2023FA0000199Flow Divider · perforatedTHE FLOW DIVIDER ON TOP OF THE ENGINE AT THE SPINE HAS A SMALL COMPENSATION HOLE ABOVE THE DIAPHRAGM. IF THE DIAPHRAGM HAS A PERFORATION, RAW FUEL WILL RISE ABOVE THE DIAPHRAGM AND SPEW FROM THIS HOLE AND THUS CAUSE AND EXTREME FIRE HAZARD. I HAVE OBSERVED THISDR 2023FA0000180Fairing · unknownSCREW TO HOLD FAIRING BETWEEN WING AND TIP TANK TOO LONG AND POSSIBLE PENETRATING / RUBBING ON FUEL TANK. THE INNER AERODYNAMIC FAIRING BETWEEN TIP TANK AND UPPER SURFACE OF WING HAS A TINNERMAN NUT PLATE TO CONNECT TO ANOTHER FAIRING. SCREWS IN THIS NUT PLATESDR 2022FA0000275Vacuum Sys · failedTWO VACUUM PUMPS WERE INSTALLED AT ENGINE CHANGE THEY BOTH FAILED AT 25 HOURS PUMPS WERE PURCHASED FROM MCFARLAND AVIATION ON 2/8/22 MCFARLAND INVOICE 0453567-INSDR 2022FA0000276Vacuum Sys · failedTWO VACUUM PUMPS WERE INSTALLED AT ENGINE CHANGE. THEY BOTH FAILED IN UNDER 25 HOURS. BOTH INTERNAL FAILURES. SHEARING THE DRIVE COUPLING. BOTH PURCHASED FROM MAFARLANE AVIATION ON 2/8/22. INVOICE 0453567IN.SDR 2019FA0000089Actuator Cable · unsecureDURING ANNUAL INSPECTION HEIM JOINT USED TO CONNECT THROTTLE CABLE TO THROTTLE BODY WAS FOUND TO BE PARTIALLY UNSCREWED FROM THROTTLE CABLE. THE WITNESS HOLE ALLOWED A WIRE TO PASS THROUGH, INDICATING INSUFFICIENT ATTACHMENT.SDR 2016FA0000248Rod · failedAFTER GEAR DROP, LT MAIN SHOWED DOWN, LOCKED, RT MAIN SHOWED UNSAFE AND NOSE WHEEL UNSAFE. ACFT LANDED AFTER TOWER REPORTED THE GEAR APPEARED DOWN. AT END OF ROLLOUT, ACFT STARTED A RT DRIFT AND A RT WING STARTED TO DROP. RIGHT GEAR FOLDED ONTO PARTIALLY SDR 2015FA0000307Tube · bentLANDING GEAR WAS SELECTED DOWN AND EXTENDED AND THE PILOT FELT A STRANGE "CLUNK" UNDER HIS FEET. THE PILOT DID NOT GET A "GREEN" DOWN-AND-LOCKED INDICATION FOR THE NOSE GEAR. TOWER CONFIRMED NOSE GEAR WAS NOT DOWN. THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED UPON LANDING. SUBSDR CA150616024Support · damaged(CAN) AT FULL UP ELEVATOR, WITH THE ELEVATOR RIGGED WITHIN LIMITS, THE ARM ASSEMBLY IS CONTACTING THE SUPPORT ASSEMBLY CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE SUPPORT ASSEMBLY.SDR CA150616026Support · damaged(CAN) AT FULL UP ELEVATOR, WITH THE ELEVATOR RIGGED WITHIN LIMITS, THE ARM ASSEMBLY IS CONTACTING THE SUPPORT ASSEMBLY CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE SUPPORT ASSEMBLY.SDR CA150616009Support · damaged(CAN) AT FULL UP ELEVATOR, WITH THE ELEVATOR RIGGED WITHIN LIMITS, THE ARM ASSEMBLY IS CONTACTING THE SUPPORT ASSEMBLY CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE SUPPORT ASSEMBLY.SDR 2015FA0000090Battery Box · mismanufacturedTHE FACTORY ACFT BATTERY BOX WAS REPLACED DUE TO ACID DAMAGE CAUSING LEAKS WITH A STAINLESS STEEL BATTERY BOX. IT WAS OBSERVED THAT THE STAINLESS BATTERY BOX WAS LEAKING ACID ON THE FIREWALL AND DAMAGED WIRE IN A WIRE BUNDLE RUNNING UNDER THE BATTERY BOX. THSDR 2015FA0000063Bearing · failedPILOT REPORTED THAT HE HAD GREEN GEAR DOWN AND LOCKED LIGHTS PRIOR TO LANDING AND WHEN THE NOSE TOUCHED DOWN IT FOLDED. FOUND THAT THE AFT RETRACT ROD,ROD-END AT THE EXTENSION IDLER FAILED CAUSING THE COLLAPSE. ONLY MINOR AIRFRAME DAMAGE TO THE NOSE AND NOSE SDR 2014FA0000640Clamp · failedWHILE TAXIING ON THE RUNWAY, RIGHT MAIN GEAR COLLAPSED, RESULTED IN MINOR DAMAGE. INVESTIGATION REVEALED A BROKEN MOUNTING CLAMP FROM THE GEAR STRUT TO THE ROLL PIN. UNABLE TO DETERMINE CAUSE OF CLAMP FAILURE, CLAMP WAS FRACTURED AT THE LAST THREAD AND WAS MISDR 2014FA0000670Throttle Cable · failedLEFT THROTTLE CABLE SEPARATED FROM STATIONARY SWEDGE IN THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT REDUCING ENGINE POWER DURING ROTATION PHASE OF A TOUCH AND GO PROCEDURE. ACFT HAD DIFFICULITY MAINTAINING A POSITIVE RATE OF CLIMB DUE TO REDUCED ENGINE POWER AND A HIGH DENSITY ALSDR 2013FA0000219Line · leakingPILOT REPORTED FUEL ODOR IN CABIN. DURING THE ANNUAL INSPECTION, HEAVY FUEL STAINING WAS NOTED IN THE SPAR BOX AND IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE RIGID FUEL CROSS FEED LINES THAT RUN THROUGH THE FUSELAGE, INSIDE OF THE MAIN SPAR BOX, HAD CORRODED INTERNALLY RESULSDR 2013FA0000135Bearing · failedTHE PILOT STATED THAT DURING GEAR RETRACTION AFTER TAKEOFF, HE HEARD A LOUD BANG IN FRONT GEAR AREA. GEAR INDICATOR SHOWED UP AND LOCKED, NO FAILURE INDICATIONS. PRIOR TO LANDING, LOWERED THE LANDING GEAR AND HAD NORMAL GEAR DOWN AND LOCKED INDICATIONS. UPOSDR 2012FA0000658Rod Bolt · damagedENGINE FAILURE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY 1 ROD BOLT WITH INDICATIONS OF BEACH MARKS.SDR 2012FA0000600Gear · damagedWEAR IN THE LAST 13 TEETH OF THE HELICAL GEAR ON THE RETRACT END OF GEAR. THERE IS A .02 TO .035 STEP ON THE THRUST SIDE OF THE GEAR. THIS IS ENOUGH TO JAMB THE WORM DRIVE RENDERING GEAR INOPERATIVE TO NORMAL EXTENSION OR HAND CRANK. PROBLEM APPEARS TO BE ASSDR 2012FA0000540Motor · failedLANDING GEAR MOTOR WOULD TRIP CIRCUIT BREAKER DURING ALL ATTEMPTS AT LOWERING LANDING GEAR. EMERGENCY PROCEDURES FOR LANDING GEAR EXTENSION FAILURE AND MANUAL GEAR EXTENSION UNSUCCESSFUL RESULTING IN A GEAR-UP LANDING. ON INSPECTION OF LANDING GEAR COMPONENTSDR 2011FA0000591Cylinder Head · separatedCYLINDER HEAD SEPARATION.SDR 2011FA0000510Hub · crackedREAR HUB HALF CONTAINS 12 INCH LONG CRACK RESULTING IN SEPARATION OF ONE BLADE SOCKET.SDR 2011FA0000116Structure · crackedPERFORMED INSP IAW SAFETY COMUNIQUE NR 313. FOUND RT FLAP L/E CRACKED (ABOUT 1.5 INCH LONG) IN THE VICINITY OF THE "FLAP ACTUATOR BRACKET". FURTHER FOUND NOSE RIB CRACKED AS WELL. REMOVED FLAP FOR REPAIRS.SDR 2010FA0001234Line · corrodedACCESSED & CLOSELY INSPECTED RT FUEL FLOW/PRESSURE GAGE LINE WHERE IT CROSSED DEFROST DUCT BECAUSE IT LOOKED LIKE THEY MAY BE CONTACTING. FOUND EXTENSIVE CORROSION AT POINT OF CONTACT. AFTER LINE WAS REMOVED, SLIGHT BENDING PRESSURE CRACKED AREA WIDE OPEN ANSDR 2010FA0000268Downlock · lack of lubeRT LANDING GEAR FAILED TO FULLY EXTEND AND LOCK. THE RT DOWNLOCK PN 5041018-1 SEIZED DUE TO LACK OF LUBRICATION. THE DOWN LOCK ROD END PN KWBS WAS ALSO SEIZED FOR THE SAME REASON. THE WEIGHT OF THE ACFT ON THE PARTIALLY EXTENDED GEAR PULLED THE BELLCRANK BRASDR 2010FA0000190Strut · dischargedDURING ROUTINE TAKEOFF AND AS LANDING GEAR RETRACTED A LOUD 'BANG' WAS HEARD. THE GEAR WAS THEN LOWERED AFTER LEVEL FLIGHT WAS ESTABLISHED; AFTER SEEING A 'GREEN' INDICATION THE AIRPLANE WAS LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT. IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THE NOSE STRUT HAD DSDR 2010FA0000061Blade · corrodedPROPELLER RECENTLY OVERHAULED 10/29/2009 PROPELLER CAME IN FOR REPITCH WITH NO TIME ON SINCE OVERHAULED. 1 BLADE PAINT WAS REMOVED AND LOTS OF CORROSSION LEFT UNDER PAINT NOT REMOVED AS SHOULD BE WITH OVERHAUL. PROPELLER WILL HAVE TO BE REOVERHAULED TO DETERMISDR AG2R2010002Cylinder Head · crackedBOTTOM SPARK PLUG CRACK, EXHAUST SEAT CRACK, FUEL INJECTOR BOSS CRACK, AND INTAKE PORT CRACK. TOO SEVERE FOR REPAIR.SDR 2009FA0000916Linkage · bentNOSE GEAR FAILED UPON RETRACT. EXACT CAUSE, UNKNOWN. FOUND LINKAGE FROM GEAR ACTUATOR BOX TO NOSE GEAR BENT. THE NOSE GEAR DOOR LINKAGE IS SUSPECT TO CAUSING THE INCIDENT, BUT CANNOT SAY WITH CERTAINTY.SDR 2009FA0000330Bulkhead · crackedINSP PURSUANT TO AD-72-07-09 REVEALED A CRACK IN THE UPPER LT FLANGE AREA OF THE BULKHEAD. BULKHEAD WAS REPLACED. (K)SDR 2009FA0000320Bellcrank · failedIDLER BELLCRANK FAILED DURING RETRACTION CYCLE. THIS BELLCRANK IS CAST ALLOY. IN MY OPINION IT SHOULD BE A MACHINE PART. (K)SDR 2007FA0000954Battery · damagedDURING ANNUAL INSPECTION FOUND DRIED ALKILINE BATTERY SUBSTANCE ON EXTERIOR OF CASE. OPEND CASE AND FOUND THAT THE BATTERIES, ALKALINE BATTERIES WERE COMING APART AT THE SEAMS AND LEAKING. CLEANED BATTERY COMPARTMENT AND INSTALLED FRESH SET OF BATTERIES. FUSDR 2007FA0000908Stop · brokenPILOT HAD NO LT GEAR DOWN INDICATION. HE CYCLED GEAR WITH NO SUBSEQUENT GEAR DOWN INDICATION. HE ATTEMPTED MANUAL EXTENSION, CRANKED TO THE MECHANICAL STOP IN THE GEARBOX AND BROKE THE STOP. BELLCRANK CONTINUED PAST DOWN AND THEN WENT PARTIALLY (UP). GEAR SDR 2007FA0000584Rod End · failedROD END FAILED, ALLOWING NOSE GEAR DOOR TO PARTIALLY CLOSE IN FLIGHT. WHEN GEAR WAS RETRACTED, JAMMED NOSE GEAR ASSY ALONG WITH GEAR DOOR UP IN GEAR WELL. (K)SDR 2007FA0000369Landing Gear · malfunctionedTHE PILOT NOTED THAT SOMETHING WAS HANGING DOWN UNDER THE AC IN CRUISE FLIGHT AND THAT THE AC WAS NOT GOING AS FAST AS IT NORMALLY DID. ANOTHER AC NOTED THAT THE GEAR WAS UP, BUT THAT THE LEFT IB GEAR DOOR WAS HANGING DOWN PART WAY. THE TOWER CONFIRMED THAT SDR 2007FA0000332Snap Ring · mismanufacturedSNAP RING USED TO RETAIN PLATE PN 643629 AND COUNTERWEIGHT PIN 643626-101 WAS BEING INSTALLED IN COUNTERWEIGHT. UPON INSTALLING, THE LAST SNAP RING, IT WAS NOTICED THAT THE SNAP RING DID NOT HAVE ANY RETAINING PROPERTIES. IT LACKED TEMPER TO SPRING BACK AND SDR OMKR20071Drag Link · brokenUPON LANDING, THE NOSE LANDING GEAR DRAG LINK ASSEMBLY P/N 0842000-3 BROKE AT THE STRUT ATTACH POINT, ALLOWING THE NOSE GEAR TO COLLAPSE REARWARD, CAUSING THE AIRCRAFT TO SLIDE ON ITS NOSE UNTIL IT STOPPED. THE DRAG LINK ASSEMBLY APPEARS TO HAVE BROKEN THROUGSDR 2007FA0000270Control Cable · worn(REF MODEL 35 SERIES IPC FIG. 27) LT AILERON CABLE FOUND RIDING ON PROP CONTROL CABLE SHEATH, ABOUT 2 INCHES AFT OF FIREWALL. AILERON CABLE WAS WORN ABOUT HALF THROUGH, AND THE PROP CABLE WAS WORN THROUGH THE SHEATH TO THE INNER STEEL CABLE. (VERY DIFFICULT SDR ATL07LA057Fuel Cell · leakingDURING START OF RT ENGINE, PILOT REPORTED HEARING A LOUD THUMP, NOTED FIRE COMING FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE RT COWLING. SHUTDOWN ENGINES, EVACUATED AIRCRAFT, AND NOTED APPARENT EXPLOSION HAD OCCURRED IN RT WING. VISUAL INSPECTION DID NOT REVEAL CAUSE OF EVENTSDR 2007FA0000243Antenna · misinstalledTHE DOUBLER FOR THE VHF ANTENNA APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN TOO SMALL(SLIGHLY LARGER THAN THE BASE OF THE ANTENNA)AND WAS NOT RIVITED TO THE FUSELAGE,ALLOWING THE ANTENNA TO FLUTTER WHILE AIRBORNE.ON POST FLIGHT INSPECTION THE PILOT DISCOVERED TEARING ON THREE SIDES SDR 2007FA0000195Limit Switch · failedUP LIMIT SWITCH FAILED ON LANDING GEAR ACTUATOR, CAUSING OVER EXTENSION OF NOSE GEAR SYSTEM. THIS CAUSED THE INTERMEDIATE TORQUE TUBE TO BEND. (K)SDR 2007FA0000030Valve · failedFOUND THERMOSTAT WORKING, BUT FUEL SOLENOID NOT STOPPING FUEL DELIVERY EVEN WITH POWER TO VALVE DISTUPTED. CABIN HEATER ONLY SHUTDOWN WHEN OVERHEAT SWITCH OPENED. VALVE INFO: MODEL NR 4400B.SDR 2006FA0000925Spar Cap · corrodedDURING THE ANNUAL INSPECTION, FOUND UPPER AND LOWER REAR SPAR DAMAGE ON THIS AIRCRAFT. THIS DAMAGE IS DUE TO CORROSION ON THE UPPER AND LOWER REAR SPAR CAPS. THE UPPER REAR SPAR CAP DAMAGE IS LOCATED ON THE FORWARD SIDE OF THE REAR SPAR CAP EXTENDING IB FROM SDR 2006FA0000939Hose · failedINVESTIGATION INTO FAILED ATTITUDE INDICATOR ON LISTED AIRCRAFT FOUND APPARENT CAUSE OF FAILURE TO BE FROM CONTAMINATION FROM DISINTEGRATING VACUUM HOSE. THE HOSES IN QUESTION ARE MARKED B906 AND B904 HOSE. TO PREVENT RECURRENCE, SB SEB96-10 SHOULD BE ACCOMPSDR 2006FA0000907Motor · failedLANDING GEAR WOULD NOT EXTEND ELECTRICALLY ON APPROACH. OPERATIONS NORMAL WHEN LANDING GEAR EXTENDED WITH MANUAL EMERGENCY EXTENSION SYS. FOUND LANDING GEAR ACTUATOR MOTOR INOPERATIVE. WOULD MAKE NOISE BUT NOT ROTATE. REPLACED MOTOR WITH OVERHAULED REPLACEMSDR 2006FA0000791Hinge · crackedFAIRLEADS IN RUDDERVATOR TRIM TAB CNTRL CABLE SYS ARE CRACKING UPON INSTALLATION, POSSIBLY DURING FLIGHT. BUTTON-HEAD RIVETS ARE INTERFERING WITH INSTALLATION, CAUSING CRACKS TO FORM IN (TANG) OF FAIRLEADS. CABLE TENSION USED IN RUDDERVATOR TRIM TAB CABLES ISDR IGL032006007Strut · failedNOSE GEAR STRUT ASSEMBLY COLLAPSED DURING EITHER TAXI OR TAKEOFF. WHEN GEAR WAS RETRACTED THE NOSE FENDER CAUGHT ON THE GEAR DOOR BRACKETS. MOTOR CONTINUED UNTIL IDLER BELLCRANK BROKE. AIRCRAFT MADE AN EMERGENCY LANDING WITH THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED. PILOT SDR 2006FA0000220Encoder · out of adjustCHECKED ENCODER SYSTEM AND COULD NOT VERIFIED REPORT OF ATTITUDE ERROR. REPLACED TRANS CAL BLIND ENCODER AS PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE. RECERTIFY TRANSPONDER AND ENCODER IAW FAR. (K)SDR 2006FA0000262Fuel Cell · deterioratedFOUND FUEL SYTEM CONTAMINATED WITH AN UNKNOWN SUBSTANCE. AFTER HAVING THE ENTIRE SYSTEM DRAINED, FLUSHED AND THE ENGINE FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM OVERHAULED, THE AIRCRAFT WAS REFUELED AND FLOWN. AFTER A SHORT FLIGHT, THE SUMPS WERE CHECKED AGAIN AND THE SUBSTANCSDR 2006FA0000265Baffle · deterioratedFOUND FUEL SYSTEM CONTAMINATED WITH AN UNKNOWN SUBSTANCE. AFTER HAVE THE ENTIRE SYSTEM DRAINED, FLUSHED AND THE ENGINE FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM OVERHAULED, THE AIRCRAFT WAS REFUELED AND FLOWN. AFTER A SHORT FLIGHT, THE SUMPS WERE CHECKED AGAIN AND THE SUBSTANCESDR 2006FA0000097Control Cable · brokenTHE LT RUDDER CABLE BROKE AT THE CLEVIS THAT ATTACHES IT TO THE RUDDER TORQUE TUBE ARM. UNDER NORMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS, DURING THE 37 YEARS AND HOURS THAT THE AIRCRAFT HAS BEEN IN SERVICE. THE RT RUDDER CABLE HAD ABOUT 25 PERCENT OF THE STRANDS BROKEN. T
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