Service difficulty report · Display · Gulstm GIVXG450

Difficulty date
November 19, 2019
Submitted
November 20, 2019
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N470QS
Make and model
Gulstm GIVXG450
Aircraft serial
4084
Aircraft time
9,885 hours, 4,865 cycles
Part
Display
Part number
7025725951
Part serial
06092110
Condition
Defective
Location
Cockpit
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.

What was found

COCKPIT ODOR - COMBINATION OF OIL SMELL AND OR ELECTRICAL HOT ODOR. ONLY IN COCKPIT. INTERMITTENT. STRONGEST LOCATION IN VESTIBULE AT MAIN CABIN DOOR THEN FORWARD. // SIGNOFF// NOTICED ODOR UPON ENTERING AIRCRAFT POWERED AIRCRAFT RAN APU AND PACKS WITH NO ODOR FROM THE AORCONDITION SYSTEM REMOVED PANELS TO LEFT AND RIGHT AVIONICS RACKS. STILL COULD NOT ISOLATE THE ODOR, HAD AIRCRAFT MOVED INTO HANGER. POWERED AIRCRAFT AND LET COCKPIT WARM UP ODOR INCREASED AND EVENTUALLY TRACKED DOWN THE ODOR TO THE FIRST OFFICERS MCDU REMOVED MCDU FROM PEDESTAL AND FOUND PARTS OF THE CASE WERE VERY HOT AND THE ODOR WAS OBIOUSLY EMINATION FROM THE UNIT. PLACED MCDU ON ORDER THROUDH MCC REMOVED AND REPLACED FIRST OFFICERS MCDU WITH A TESTED MCDU IAW 34-60-03 OPERATIONAL CHECK SATISFACTORY AND ODOR NO LONGER PRESEN