# Proposed AD FAA-2025-0744: The Boeing Company Airplanes

- Type: Proposed airworthiness directive (not in force)
- Status: Became AD 2026-01-05
- Products: Boeing
- Product type: Aircraft
- Action: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).
- Published: May 5, 2025, 90 FR 18930
- Comments due: June 20, 2025
- Became: [AD 2026-01-05](https://openairdocs.org/ad/2026-01-05)
- Docket: FAA-2025-0744 (https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FAA-2025-0744, where comments are filed)
- Project: AD-2024-00586-T
- FR document: 2025-07724
- Official PDF: https://openairdocs.org/files/sha256/d5/a3/d5a399a4077caf43ebf56deb7c4ba14c68d82a357259b4fe3de740ad891a011a (from https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-05-05/pdf/2025-07724.pdf)
- Federal Register: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/05/2025-07724/airworthiness-directives-the-boeing-company-airplanes
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/FR-ADNPRM-2025-07724-00000000000.0001
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/proposed/FAA-2025-0744

## Summary

The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain The Boeing Company Model 757-200 and -300 series airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by cracking found during an inspection on an airplane equipped with Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) scimitar blended winglets (SBWs). This proposed AD would require performing a general visual inspection (GVI) or maintenance records check of certain stringers for an approved freeze plug repair, performing a high frequency eddy current (HFEC) inspection of the same area for any crack common to a certain stringer and a reinforcement strap, and applicable on-condition actions. The FAA is proposing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.

## Notices in this docket

- May 5, 2025: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). (first notice), FR document 2025-07724, comments due Jun 20, 2025 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/05/2025-07724/airworthiness-directives-the-boeing-company-airplanes)

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