Service difficulty report · Starter Gen · Boeing 737990ER

Difficulty date
January 29, 2018
Submitted
February 1, 2018
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N453AS
Make and model
Boeing 737990ER
Aircraft serial
36354
Aircraft time
16,100 hours, 5,327 cycles
Part
Starter Gen
Part number
28B5459STYLEA
Part serial
67B0926
Condition
Faulted
Location
Apu
Part time
397 hours, 724 cycles
Stage of operation
TX
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
J
Precautionary procedure
O

As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.

What was found

APU WOULD NOT START. ACFT GROUNDED. PERFORMED APU BITE PROCEDURES IAW FIM 49-60 TASK 801, FOUND MAINT MESSAGE 49-41012 LOGGED, NO APU ROTATION. PERFORMED TAIL CONE GVI, NO DEFECTS NOTED. REMOVED AND REPLACED THE APU STARTER GENERATOR IAW AMM 49-41-21. APU OPS SATISFACTORY.