Service difficulty report · Skin · Doug DC873

Difficulty date
March 24, 2004
Submitted
May 19, 2004
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N803DH
Make and model
Doug DC873
Aircraft serial
46123
Aircraft time
79,338 hours, 29,421 cycles
Part
Skin
Condition
Cracked
Location
Fuselage
Part time
79,338 hours, 29,421 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

EXTERNAL FUSELAGE SKIN CRACKED 0.500 AT STA.1747.000,L15 TO L16R. PERFORMED MAJOR REPAIR IAW SRM 53-2-1 FIG. 7 REMOVED FASTENERS IAW SRM 51-1-21 PAGE 1 TRIMMED OUT DAMAGED AREA IAW SRM 53-2-1 PAGES 103, 104 FIG.7, SHEET 3. FABRICATED FILLER (7075T6 0.063) FINGER DOUBLER (7075T6 0.040) DOUBLER (7075T6 0.071) IAW SRM 53-2-1 PAGES 99,100 FIG.7 SHEET 1.CLEANED, TREATED AND PRIMED FILLER, FINGER DOUBLER AND DOUBLER IAW SRM 51-1-8B. INSTALLED FILLER, FINGER DOUBLER AND DOUBLER IAW SRM 53-2-1 PAGES 99, 100 SRM 51-1-21 PAGE1. SRM 51-1-20D PAGE 9 (WITH NEW FASTENERS).

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