Service difficulty report · Cylinder · Doug DC6

Difficulty date
March 24, 2002
Submitted
March 26, 2002
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N2907F
Make and model
Doug DC6
Aircraft serial
533265
Aircraft time
33,279 hours
Engine
Pwa R2800*
Engine time
1,871 hours
Part
Cylinder
Part number
356993
Part serial
776703
Condition
Cracked
Location
Nr 4 Engine
Part time
1,871 hours
Stage of operation
CR
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
R
Precautionary procedure
E

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

What was found

NR 4 ENGINE FEATHERED AT 0507Z, (BACKFIRING AND RUNNING ROUGH). REPLACED NR 16 CYLINDER.

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