# Proposed AD FAA-2025-0470: Airbus SAS Airplanes

- Type: Proposed airworthiness directive (not in force)
- Status: Became AD 2025-20-12
- Products: Airbus
- Product type: Aircraft
- Action: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).
- Published: March 21, 2025, 90 FR 13311
- Comments due: May 5, 2025
- Became: [AD 2025-20-12](https://openairdocs.org/ad/2025-20-12)
- Docket: FAA-2025-0470 (https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FAA-2025-0470, where comments are filed)
- Project: MCAI-2024-00579-T
- FR document: 2025-04838
- Official PDF: https://openairdocs.org/files/sha256/f1/83/f18355f31d6c05764195dd235e89a44133d3ce7d6d0bfbb95c774c7db077bb79 (from https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-03-21/pdf/2025-04838.pdf)
- Federal Register: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/21/2025-04838/airworthiness-directives-airbus-sas-airplanes
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/FR-ADNPRM-2025-04838-00000000000.0001
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/proposed/FAA-2025-0470

## Summary

The FAA proposes to supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2023-02-18, which applies to certain Airbus SAS Model A350-941 and - 1041 airplanes. AD 2023-02-18 requires revising the existing maintenance or inspection program, as applicable, to incorporate new or more restrictive airworthiness limitations. Since the FAA issued AD 2023-02-18, the FAA has determined that new or more restrictive airworthiness limitations are necessary. This proposed AD would continue to require certain actions in AD 2023-02-18 and would require revising the existing maintenance or inspection program, as applicable, to incorporate new or more restrictive airworthiness limitations, as specified in a European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) AD, which is proposed for incorporation by reference (IBR). The FAA is proposing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.

## Notices in this docket

- Mar 21, 2025: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). (first notice), FR document 2025-04838, comments due May 5, 2025 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/21/2025-04838/airworthiness-directives-airbus-sas-airplanes)

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