# SDR AALA202608267815

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: August 22, 2026
- Submitted: August 26, 2026
- Operation: Air carrier
- Aircraft: [N803AW](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N803AW), registered now
- Make and model: Airbus A319-132
- Registry model: [Airbus A319-132](https://openairdocs.org/model/airbus-a319-132) (OpenAirDocs)
- Aircraft serial: 931
- Aircraft time: 81,611 hours, 39,390 cycles
- System (JASC): [3260 · Landing Gear Position and Warning](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/3260)
- Part: Selector Valve
- Part number: 114170008
- Part serial: CWDDDH10998
- Condition: Faulty
- Location: Zone 700
- Stage of operation: CL
- How discovered: O
- Nature of condition: J
- Precautionary procedure: A
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/AALA202608267815

## Discrepancy

AIRCRAFT WAS GROUNDED: AN EMERGENCY WAS DECLARED &  ACFT RETURNED TO PHL DUE TO FLT CREW REPORTING  THE GEAR HANDLE WOULD NOT MOVE TO RETRACT GEAR ALONG WITH A MLG SHOCK ABSORBER FAULT MESSAGE WHICH DISAPPERARED & GEAR HANDLE WAS THEN ABLE TO BE MOVED TO RETRACT GEAR WHICH THEN A NLG STEERING FAULT MESSAGE DISPLAYED,  AFTER CONSUTING WITH MOC,  DETERMINED TO RETURN TO PHL,  THE FLT CREW STARTED PROCESS TO EXTEND GEAR EARLY & REPORTED IT TOOK LONGER THAN USUAL FOR GEAR TO EXTEND & HAD TO MANULLY SELECT  WHEEL PAGE ON THE LOWER ECAM WHICH INDICATED THAT GEAR DOWN AND LOCKED.   ACFT LANDED SAFELY AT PHL & AFTER VERIFYING  NLG STEERING SYS FUNCTIONAL, ACFT TAXIED TO GATE UNDER ITS OWN POWER, MAINT REPORTED  DURING A GEAR SWING  DOORS OPS PROPERLY BUT GEAR  SLOW TO COME UP,  TOOK ABOUT 45 SECS TO FULLY RETRACT THE GEAR - MAINT REPLACED MLG & DOOR SELECTOR MANIFOLD VALVE 2524GM AND ACCOMPLISHED A SATISFACTORY OPS CHKD WITH NO ISSUES OR FAULT MESSAGES NOTED

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