What was found
TRANSMISSION CHIP LIGHT ILLUMINATED DURING FLIGHT. FOUND 2 METAL CHIPS ON LOWER DETECTOR. ALSO, REMOVED FILTER AND OPENED. FOUND METAL INSIDE FILTER. REMOVED TRANSMISSION AND SENT TO APPROVED REPAIR STATION FOR REPAIR.
- Difficulty date
- May 19, 2011
- Submitted
- May 20, 2011
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N95CH
- Make and model
- Bell 206L4
- Aircraft serial
- 52195
- Aircraft time
- 7,880 hours, 46,720 cycles
- Engine
- Allsn 250C30P
- Engine time
- 4,648 hours, 8,817 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 6320 · Main Rotor Gearbox
- Part
- Transmission
- Part number
- 206040004115
- Part serial
- A208
- Condition
- Making Metal
- Location
- Main Rotor
- Stage of operation
- CR
- How discovered
- M
- Nature of condition
- J
- Precautionary procedure
- A
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.