Service difficulty report · Skin · Doug DC873F

Difficulty date
November 15, 2007
Submitted
December 11, 2007
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N604BX
Make and model
Doug DC873F
Aircraft serial
46046
Aircraft time
87,931 hours, 29,662 cycles
Part
Skin
Condition
Cracked
Location
Zone 100
Part time
87,931 hours, 29,662 cycles
Stage of operation
IN
How discovered
V
Nature of condition
O
Precautionary procedure
K

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What was found

DURING ROUTINE C CHECK INSPECTION, NOSE SECTION FUSELAGE FREON EXHAUST SYSTEM FORWARD UPPER CORNER CRACKED AT STATION FS 40.000 L27L. REMOVED FASTENERS AS NEEDED TO PERFORM REPAIR.REMOVED DAMAGED AREA.FABRICATED EXTERNAL REPAIR DOUBLER , AND FILLER. CLEANED, TREATED AND PRIMED AREA AND REPAIR PARTS. INSTALLED REPAIR PARTS AND NEW FASTNERS IAW SRM 51-1-21, 51-3-1, DC8 SRM 53-2-0 FIGURE 13 SHEET 1, SRM 53-2-0 FIGURE 13 SHEET 5 TR NUMBER 53-169 DATED 09-20-03, SRM 53-3-3 FIGURE 1 ITEM "C", DC8 SRM 51-1-20D, AND DC8 SRM 51-1-8B.

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