Service difficulty report · Start Valve · Doug DC987

Difficulty date
October 24, 2004
Submitted
October 26, 2004
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N754RA
Make and model
Doug DC987
Aircraft serial
49641
Aircraft time
33,000 hours, 23,002 cycles
Part
Start Valve
Condition
Inoperative
Location
Rt Engine
Stage of operation
TX
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
O
Precautionary procedure
D

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

What was found

AIRCRAFT RETURNED TO PLATFORM, RT ENGINE DID NOT START. TECHNICAL PERSONNEL OPENED MANUALLY THE VALVE. AT GDL, PNEUMATIC LINE OF START VALVE WAS REPLACED IAW MM 80-10-01, ALL CORRECT.

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