DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
<SUBAGY>Federal Aviation Administration</SUBAGY>
<CFR>14 CFR Part 39</CFR>
<DEPDOC>[Docket No. FAA-2025-5402; Project Identifier MCAI-2025-00425-T]</DEPDOC>
<RIN>RIN 2120-AA64</RIN>
<SUBJECT>Airworthiness Directives; De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited (Type Certificate Previously Held by Bombardier, Inc.) Airplanes</SUBJECT>
<HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD>
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
<HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD>
Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).
<SUM>
<HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD>
The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited Model DHC-8-401 and -402 airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by multiple in-service reports of cracks in elevator power control unit (PCU) brackets (fittings) and the elevator front spar. This proposed AD would require replacing bushings and installing new washers on the elevator PCU arm fitting assembly, installing doublers at the front spar of the elevator structure assembly, replacing horizontal stabilizer rear spar elevator PCU fittings, and applicable on-conditions actions. The FAA is proposing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.
</SUM>
<DATES>
<HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD>
The FAA must receive comments on this proposed AD by February 23, 2026.
</DATES>
<HD SOURCE="HED">ADDRESSES:</HD>
You may send comments, using the procedures found in 14 CFR 11.43 and 11.45, by any of the following methods:
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<E T="03">Federal eRulemaking Portal:</E>
Go to
<E T="03">regulations.gov.</E>
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
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<E T="03">Fax:</E>
202-493-2251.
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<E T="03">Mail:</E>
U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
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<E T="03">Hand Delivery:</E>
Deliver to Mail address above between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through F
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