Service difficulty report · Skin · Doug DC873F

Difficulty date
August 25, 2003
Submitted
November 22, 2003
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N805DH
Make and model
Doug DC873F
Aircraft serial
46125
Aircraft time
78,174 hours, 28,879 cycles
Part
Skin
Condition
Damaged
Location
Lt Wing
Part time
78,174 hours, 28,879 cycles
Stage of operation
IN
How discovered
V
Nature of condition
O
Precautionary procedure
K

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

What was found

LEFT WING OTBD FLAP UPPER SKIN SHOWS INTERIM REPAIR AROUND XF 345.000 TO STA XF 354.500 (MAJOR REPAIR). PERFORMED MAJOR REPAIR. REMOVED FASTENERS. TRIMMED OUT THE DAMAGED SKIN AREA. PERFORMED NDT INSPECTION. CLEANED, TREATED AND PRIMED AREA IAW SRM 51-1-8B. FABRICATED A NEW SKIN SEGMENT (2024-T3 AL0.063) AND A SPLICE STRAP (7075-T6 AL0.063) IAW DHL-EDT66-5 AND DHL-DWGT66-R05. CLEANED, TREATED AND PRIMED THE NEW SKIN SEGMENT INTERIOR SURFACE AND THE SPLICE STRAP IAW SRM 51-1-8B. APPLIED PRC SEALANT ON FAYING SURFACES IAW SRM 51-1-11 PG 9. INSTALLED THE NEW SKIN SEGMENT AND THE SPLICE STRAP ON LEFT WING OTBD FLAP UPPER SKIN (AROUND STA XF 345.000 TO XF 354.500) USING NEW FASTENERS.

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