# STC SA285WE

- Type: Supplemental type certificate
- Status: Current, Reissued
- Holder: SOUTHWESTERN AERO EXCHANGE INC., United States
- Description: Nose strut snubber installation.
- Applied: October 9, 1962
- Status date: May 1, 2006
- Product: Aircraft, Small Multi-Engine
- Certification basis: Part 21
- Data sheets: [TCDS A-765](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A-765)
- Certificate PDF: https://openairdocs.org/files/sha256/df/0c/df0cbae4d0ecb315f013f8aa41c0c74e89167faf9fb9cc40439c038b007d8a57
- FAA DRS: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/E21741EDE0C8DB4186257196004CA83B.0001
- DRS record last changed: December 5, 2025
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/stc/SA285WE

## ADs that name it (0)

None.

## Approved models (8)

- Raytheon Aircraft Company C-45G ([TCDS A-765](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A-765))
- Raytheon Aircraft Company C-45H ([TCDS A-765](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A-765))
- Raytheon Aircraft Company E18S ([TCDS A-765](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A-765))
- Raytheon Aircraft Company G18S ([TCDS A-765](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A-765))
- Raytheon Aircraft Company H18 ([TCDS A-765](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A-765))
- Raytheon Aircraft Company TC-45G ([TCDS A-765](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A-765))
- Raytheon Aircraft Company TC-45H ([TCDS A-765](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A-765))
- Textron Aviation Inc. D18S ([TCDS A-765](https://openairdocs.org/tcds/A-765))

## What the certificate says

Read from the PDF's text layer, without the form's printed wording; the layout is lost and the order can differ. The PDF is the record.

This Certificate issued to Southwestern Aero Exchange, Inc.

18502 East 108th Street N.

Owasso, Oklahoma 74055-8124 Part CAR 3 of the Civil Air Regulations.

A-765 BEECH D18S, E18S, G18S, H18, C-45G & H, TC-45G & H Description of Type Design Change: Nose strut snubber installation per Sealed Top Drawing List 815 for noted model aircraft with Volpar Tri-Gear installed in accordance with STC SA4- 1531 (Beech C-45G & H, and D18S) or STC SA111WE (Beech C-46G & H, TC-46G, D18S, E18S, G18S and H18).

Limitations and Conditions: If the holder agrees to permit another person to use this certificate to alter the product, the holder shall give the other person written evidence of that permission.

The approval of this change in type design applies basically to the aircraft models noted above.

This approval should not be extended to other specific airplanes of these models on which other specific airplanes of these models on which other previously approved modifications are incorporated unless it is determined that the interrelationship between this installation and any of those previously approved modifications will not introduce no adverse effect upon the airworthiness of the airplane.

Date of application: October 9, 1962

Date of issuance : November 29, 1962

Date reissued: Jan. 23, 1998; May 1, 2006

Date amended: May 29, 1963

( Signature)

Manager, Technical & Administrative Support Staff, Los Angeles Aircraft Certification Office ( Title)

## Every issue (1)

- May 1, 2006: Reissued, Current. [certificate](https://openairdocs.org/files/sha256/df/0c/df0cbae4d0ecb315f013f8aa41c0c74e89167faf9fb9cc40439c038b007d8a57)

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