| Link |
Date |
Description |
|
Factual Report
(PDF) |
11/19/03 |
Factual Report (as of
1/22/05) on crash of Texas Air Aces T-34, N44KK, near Montgomery TX.
November 19, 2003 is the date of the accident, not the date of the
report. See bottom of this page for Probable Cause Report dated
3/30/2005. |
|
FAA FSAW 03-11 (11 KB PDF) |
12/31/03 |
This is the FAA Flight
Standards Airworthiness Information Bulletin directing each FSDO to
inspect all T-34s within their territory. Issued December 31, 2003. |
|
Jud Nogle 1/2/04 email (11KB PDF) |
1/2/04 |
T-34 Association board
member Jud Nogle's email on January 2, 2004, notifying T-34 owners of
FSAW 03-11 (see preceding entry). It contains a checklist to prepare
for the FSDO visit ordered by FSAW 03-11. |
|
T-34 Assn Response (22KB PDF) |
1/2/04 |
The T-34 association's
response, dated January 2, 2004, filed with the FAA in response to their "Airworthiness
Concern Sheet". |
|
FAA AD 2000-13-18
R1
(45KB PDF) |
3/1/04 |
This is a revision to
AD 2000-13-18 (see above) issued by the FAA on March 1, 2004.
Any T-34 that has accumulated 80 hours or more time in
service since August 16, 2001, will be grounded on March 15, 2004
regardless of whether or not any AMOC has been performed. The only
exception to this is the aircraft that have complied with the Raytheon
service Bulletin No. 57-3329 are not effected by this amendment.
The T-34 Association is hoping to work out a temporary AMOC for those
that have already completed an AMOC by inspecting wing station 66 per
the Raytheon Service Bulletin (SB 57-3329, see above).
Victor Juarez, the DER that designed the AMOC for GAMI and the rear
spar inspection for Nogle and Black Aviation, is currently working
with GAMI to develop an inspection procedure and a fix that will
extend the 80 hour re-inspection interval of the Raytheon Service
Bulletin to several thousand hours between inspections. |
|
Dan Thomas letter (30KB PDF) |
3/9/04 |
Cover letter from Dan Thomas,
T-34 Association board member, introducing the following four items. |
|
Jud Nogle letter |
3/8/04 |
Letter to T-34 community
from Jud Nogle of Nogel and Black Aviation about the "Common Spar"
AMOC. |
|
Earle Parks conversation |
3/8/04 |
Dan Thomas conversation
with Earle Parks of Parks Industries about the latest developments
with the Parks AMOC. |
|
Mark Ward conversation |
3/8/04 |
Dan Thomas conversation
with Mark Ward Mark of Aviadesign about the latest developments with
the wing spar AD. Aviadesign holds the AMOC that uses the Saunders
Strap technology to deal with the wing spar. |
|
GAMI comments |
3/8/04 |
Comments from Tim Roehl of
GAMI/T-34 Spar Corporation about the "Doubler Plate" AMOC. |
|
News for Common Spar T-34s |
3/9/04 |
Email from Jim Nogle
regarding revised Common Spar AMOC. |
|
TIS definition |
8/24/04 |
AD 2001-13-18 R1 uses the
term "time in service" (TIS). From
Part 1 of the FARs, TIS, with respect
to maintenance time records, is defined as the time from the moment an
aircraft leaves the surface of the earth until it touches it at the
next point of landing. (The link to the left points to a page with
a long list of definitions. Search for "time in service" on the page
to find the above definition.) |
|
Save the Mentor! |
12/04 |
"T-34 owners are the latest to prove
the value of good old-fashioned American ingenuity." By Peter
Garrison. Originally published in Air & Space/Smithsonian, Dec
2004/Jan2005. |
|
Probable Cause Report (Web) |
3/30/05 |
NTSB Probable
Cause Report for crash of N44KK. |
|
Brief of Accident (PDF) |
3/30/05 |
NTSB Brief of
Accident for crash of N44KK. A 3 page report that has a few details
and lists the probable causes of the accident. |
