Service difficulty report · Mount Bracket · Agusta A109E

Difficulty date
July 8, 2003
Submitted
August 7, 2003
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N1YU
Make and model
Agusta A109E
Aircraft serial
11130
Part
Mount Bracket
Part number
109037160109
Condition
Damaged
Location
Tailboom
Part time
223 hours
Stage of operation
NR
How discovered
9
Nature of condition
O
Precautionary procedure
O

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

What was found

WHILE TROUBLESHOOTING A FAULTY ANTI-COLLISION LIGHT THE MAINTENANCE TECHNICION FOUND THE LOWER ANTI-COLLISION LIGHT MOUNT BRACKET LOOSE AND SMOKING AT THE TWO FORWARD SCREWS. THIS BRACKET PN 109-0371-60-109 IS MOUNTED ON THREE RUBBER SHOCKMOUNTS. A NEW MOUNT WAS ORDERED, AND IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE COUNTER SUNK SCREW THREADS WERE BOTTOMING OUT IN THE SHOCKMOUNTS BEFORE PROPER CLAMP-UP OF THE MOUNT COULD BE ACHIEVED. HAD THIS CONDITION CONTINUED, THE MOUNT WOULD HAVE CHAFED THROUGH POSSIBLY ALLOWING THE ANTICOLLISION LIGHT TO DEPART THE AIRCRAFT. THIS CONDITION WAS ELIMINATED BY ADDING A NAS1149FN623P WASHER BETWEEN THE SHOCKMOUNT AND THE MOUNT BRACKET.

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