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Textron Aviation is not responsible for the quality of maintenance performed to comply with this document, unless the maintenance is accomplished at a Textron Aviation-owned Service Center.
Reason: The aural warning system may give a false failure call-out during startup.
Description: This service document provides parts and instructions to install Recommended Field Service Kit 434-3018-0001, 434-3018-0003, or 434-3018-0009. This kit should be installed to prevent the aural warning system from annunciating a test failure when a failure does not exist on a Mod 3A ASPU. This kit eliminates the aural warning system test false failure that may occur during startup.
From Communiqué # ME-TP-004: Multi-Engine Turboprop Communiqué
Issued: June 2017
ATA 27 – Control Column Bearing Support Inspection
A recent field report has come into the technical support group that stated an out of tolerance gap was found on the control column support bearing. Technical support would like to encourage operators to carefully inspect this area when performing the third phase inspection. This inspection will ensure that the bearing assembly has not worked loose from the associated mounting rivets.
ATA 31 – Fusion Equipped King Airs with Collins AFD 3700 Adaptive Flight Displays (AFD) USB port usage to charge mobile devices
We have received several inquiries concerning the use of the Collins AFD USB ports to charge mobile devices in flight. These ports are designed solely for updating data within the AFDs and were not designed to provide the current most devices can draw when charging. Utilizing the AFD USB port for this purpose can cause damage to the AFD and prevent the port from functioning at a later time when it is needed to update the display. Textron recommends that these USB ports are only used for their intended purpose and not to charge any other devices.
ATA 31 – Fusion Equipped B200GT and B350i King Air Phase 2 Update for Software and Databases
Textron Aviation recently began deliveries of B200GT and B350i Pro Line Fusion phase 2 aircraft. The serial effectively for factory production is BY-285 and after; BZ-2 and after; FL-1077, FL-1080 and after; and FM-71 and after. The effectivity of the C90GTx will be set at a later date.
This update primarily provides new special mission equipment capability but also adds a surface management system, allows installed equipment options to be selected through the MFD instead of a loadable APM file, updates the electronic standby system remote sensor unit (RSU)
AUGUST 2017
software, and on the B350i moves the cabin altitude alert from a physical annunciator to the CAS system.
There are changes to software, databases, and manuals with this release that should be noted. The introduction of Phase 2, the Rockwell Collins Pilot’s Operating Guide 523-0820001; Pro Line Fusion Aircraft Maintenance Manual 523-0821905; FMS Quick Ref Guide 523- 0823290; Fusion Quick Ref Guide 523-0822518 and Fault Isolation Manual 523-0821906 all roll to Edition 2 of each manual. Edition 1 of these manuals should still be used on all phase 1 Fusion aircraft. Additional software files and databases have changed from the list provided for phase 1 of Fusion in King Air Communiqué 2016-04. The list for production phase 2 aircraft is shown in this referenced Communiqué on the web site. The field loadable software files will be made available on the txtavsupport.com web site. The phase 2 AFD software, like phase 1 software is bundled into a load set as the part number 434-310011-0005 file at txtavsupport.com.
ATA 33 - King Air LED Cabin Lighting Upgrade
Textron Aviation Service Centers are announcing the availability of Precision Windings Inc. (PWI) King Air cabin lighting LED Upgrades. These cabin lighting upgrades replace the existing fluorescent or incandescent lighting with LEDs. PWI’s LEDs last far longer – thus reducing or even eliminating related maintenance costs,
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