What was found
100 HRS. INSPECTION REVEALED CRACK IN NLG. THIS PART WAS INSTALLED LESS THAN 300 HRS AGO TO REPLACE A BROKEN NLG THAT RESULTED IN A PROP STRIKE. THIS PART IS NOT PART OF THE CURRENT AD (THE PREVIOUS PART WAS).
- Difficulty date
- March 29, 2019
- Submitted
- April 30, 2019
- Operation
- General aviation
- Aircraft
- N526DS
- Make and model
- Diamon DA40
- Aircraft serial
- 626
- Engine
- Lyc IO360M1A
- System (JASC)
- 3220 · Nose/Tail Landing Gear
- Part
- Fork
- Part number
- D413223100004
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Nlg
- Part time
- 292 hours
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- E
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.