Business · 29/09/1997

General Electric Company Issues Airworthiness Directive for CT58 Series Turboshaft Engines

The General Electric Company has issued an airworthiness directive requiring the removal from service of certain compressor rear shafts, inspections of critical rotating parts, and replacement with improved design parts in its CT58 series turboshaft engines, following a 1993 turbine wheel incident that highlighted the risk of fatigue cracking on critical parts.