What was found
WHILE CONDUCTING A ROUTINE PATROL AT NIGHT THE GENERATOR FAILED AND WOULD NOT RESET. ALL NON ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT WAS SHUTOFF AND THE PILOT RETURNED TO BASE UTILIZING BATTERY BUSS POWER WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT.
- Difficulty date
- August 28, 2007
- Submitted
- August 31, 2007
- Operation
- General aviation
- Aircraft
- N455AE
- Make and model
- Snias AS350B2
- Aircraft serial
- 3509
- Aircraft time
- 3,556 hours, 7,081 cycles
- Engine
- Tmeca ARRIEL1D1
- Engine time
- 4,398 hours, 3,870 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 2435 · Starter-Generator
- Part
- Starter Gen
- Part number
- 150SG122Q
- Part serial
- 8279MM
- Condition
- Inoperative
- Location
- Engine
- Part time
- 15 hours
- Stage of operation
- CR
- How discovered
- O
- Nature of condition
- H, J
- Precautionary procedure
- A
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.