Service difficulty report · Control Valve · Lear 31A

Difficulty date
October 6, 2015
Submitted
October 12, 2015
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N32HH
Make and model
Lear 31A
Aircraft serial
201
Aircraft time
5,230 hours, 4,255 cycles
Part
Control Valve
Part number
66003611
Part serial
1104
Condition
Intermittent
Location
Mlg Door
Stage of operation
LD
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
J
Precautionary procedure
L

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

What was found

DURING LANDING, THE MLG FAILED TO EXTEND COMPLETELY. PERFORMED AN ALTERNATE MLG EXTENSION & LANDED UNEVENTFULLY. DURING TROUBLESHOOTING & AFTER SEVERAL PARTIAL RETRACTION & EXTENSION CYCLES TO CLEAR THE AIR FROM THE MLG & DOOR ACTUATORS, THE MLG RETRACTION & EXTENSION SYS WORKED CORRECTLY THROUGHOUT APPROX 15 CYCLES, BEGIN TO FAILED WHEN SELECTED UP. AFTER A 4 - 5 SECOND HESITATION, RETRACTION CYCLE BEGAN & RAISED MLG NORMALLY. HESITATION TO RETRACT OCCURRED 4 TIMES, VARYING TIMES FROM 2 TO 10 SECONDS. MLG NEVER FAILED TO EXTEND WHEN SELECTED DOWN. COULD HEAR THE MLG SOLENOID INBD DOOR CONTROL VALVE CLICK, INDICATING THAT IT WAS RECEIVING POWER. MLG INBD DOOR CONTROL VALVE WAS REPLACED.

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