What was found
THE CREW REPORTED SMOKE IN THE COCKPIT & SPARKS COMING OUT OF APU STARTER GENERATOR APU OUTLET. MAINTENANCE REPLACED THE APU GENERATOR CONTROL UNIT AND REPLACED THE APU STARTER GENERATOR. OPS CHECKS WERE GOOD.
- Difficulty date
- August 31, 2012
- Submitted
- September 4, 2012
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N11548
- Make and model
- Emb EMB145
- Aircraft serial
- 145565
- Aircraft time
- 25,796 hours, 19,517 cycles
- Engine
- Rroyce AE3007A1P
- System (JASC)
- 2421 · AC Generator-Alternator
- Part
- Gcu
- Part number
- 51525014A
- Part serial
- P1026
- Condition
- Faulty
- Location
- Apu
- Part time
- 15,179 hours, 9,545 cycles
- Stage of operation
- NR
- How discovered
- O
- Nature of condition
- B
- Precautionary procedure
- O
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.