FAA Defect Report Search

[sseeker]

Afternoon all,

 

Does anyone know where I can find FAA defect reports for a certain aircraft make? Steve Bell (RA-Aus Tech Manager) has requested that I give him the aircraft details, defect reports and how many flying in the USA with estimated hours in order for him to approve the build.

 

I know that there's 4 aircraft registered and airworthy under the FAA 'N' number registration, although there seems to be a lot more of them flying after taking a look on Youtube.

 

Regards,

 

Andrew

 

 

[Guest Crezzi]

Is this what you are after ?

 

ASIAS Home

 

Cheers

 

John

 

 

[sseeker]

Hi John,

 

Looks like it has a lot of information in it regarding what I'm after but I can't seem to find the aircraft model that I want in their database. Does this cover Americas sport aviation sector?

 

-Andrew

 

 

[Guest Crezzi]

There are certainly reports about LSA in some of the databases but I've no idea how comprehensive it is - sorry !

 

If its an FAR103 type craft you are interested in then I doubt there would be any trace in the FAA databases since they aren't considered as aircraft

 

 

[sseeker]

Yes it's a FAR 103 Type Aicraft, thanks for your assistance.

 

-Andrew

 

 

[djpacro]

I've used these FAA SDR database searches successfully in the past - worth a try.

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

give us a hint what type. may be able to find someone to help you

 

 

[sseeker]

I'm pretty sure Steve is referring to our common 'Airworthiness Directive' but for the FAA. Aircraft type is an Affordaplane.

 

-Andrew

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

The Affordaplane is built to the 254lb rule of FAR103 i doubt very much if the FAA would have any thing on it as far as directives go.

 

you could try www.affordaplane.com or see if you can get onto the forums at

 

www.oshkosh365.org or do a yahoo group search for it. there are quite a few of these flying in the US.

 

ozzie

 

 

[sseeker]

Hi Ozzie,

 

Yes that's correct, in the end I just wrote in my report that I couldn't find anything & I'm sure he wouldn't accept anything from a Yahoo group anyway, would have to be from the FAA.

 

Thanks for your help everyone

 

-Andrew

 

 

[Bill Hamilton]

Folks,

 

Aircraft in this cat. are not aircraft, as far as FAA is concerned, but aerial vehicles, more or less the same as 95.10.

 

Major defect reporting legally only applies to normally certificated aircraft.

 

Assuming this aircraft is to go into an Experimental cat., you do NOT have to produce any justification history for the aircraft, that all went out the window in 1998.

 

You are solely responsible for the "airworthiness" of the aircraft, the Level 2 or whoever completes the inspection and paperwork is NOT certifying the aircraft is airworthy.

 

Regards,