[Federal Register: November 4, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 212)]
[Rules and Regulations]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 23
[Docket No. CE300; Special Conditions No. 23-240-SC]
Special Conditions: Cessna Aircraft Company, Model 525C; Flight
Performance, Flight Characteristics, and Operating Limitations
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Final special conditions; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: These special conditions are issued for the Cessna Aircraft
Company, Model 525C airplane. This airplane will have a novel or
unusual design feature(s) associated with turbofan engines, engine
location, and certain performance characteristics necessary for this
type of airplane that were not envisioned by the existing regulations.
The applicable airworthiness regulations do not contain adequate or
appropriate safety standards for this design feature. These special
conditions contain the additional safety standards that the
Administrator considers necessary to establish a level of safety
equivalent to that established by the existing airworthiness standards.
DATES: The effective date of these special conditions is November 4,
2009. We must receive your comments by December 4, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Mail two copies of your comments to: Federal Aviation
Administration, Regional Counsel, ACE-7, Attn: Rules Docket No. CE300,
901 Locust, Kansas City, MO 64106. You may deliver two copies to the
Regional Counsel at the above address. Mark your comments: Docket No.
CE300. You may inspect comments in the Rules Docket weekdays, except
Federal holidays, between 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Lowell Foster, Federal Aviation
Administration, Small Airplane Directorate, Aircraft Certification
Service, 901 Locust, Room 301, Kansas City, MO 64106; telephone (816)
329-4125; facsimile (816) 329-4090.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA has determined that notice and
opportunity for prior public comment hereon are impracticable because
these procedures would significantly delay issuance of the approval
design and thus delivery of the affected aircraft. In addition, the
substance of these special conditions has been subject to the public
comment process in several prior instances with no substantive comments
received. The FAA therefore finds that good cause exists for making
these special conditions effective upon issuance.
Comments Invited
We invite interested people to take part in this rulemaking by
sending written comments, data, or views. The most helpful comments
reference a specific portion of the special conditions, explain the
reason for any recommended change, and include supporting data. We ask
that you send us two copies of written comments.
We will file in the docket all comments we receive, as well as a
report summarizing each substantive public contact with FAA personnel
about these special conditions. You can inspect the docket before and
after the comment closing date. If you wish to review the docket in
person, go to the address in the ADDRESSES section of this preamble
between 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
We will consider all comments we receive by the closing date for
comments. We will consider comments filed late if it is possible to do
so without incurring expense or delay. We may change these special
conditions based on the comments we receive.
If you want us to let you know we received your comments on these
special conditions, send us a pre-addressed, stamped postcard on which
the docket number appears. We will stamp the date on the postcard and
mail it back to you.
Background
On June 28, 2007, Cessna Aircraft Company applied for a type
certificate for their new Model Cessna Model 525C. The Cessna Model
525C is a commuter category derivative configuration of the Model 525B
airplane with unique turbofan engines, engine location, and certain
performance characteristics necessary for this type of airplane. Unlike
similar commuter category jet projects, these special conditions
reflect the model history of the model 525 back through normal category
for consistency in training.
Type Certification Basis
Under the provisions of 14 CFR, part 21, Sec. 21.17, Cessna
Aircraft Company must show that the Cessna Model 525C meets the
applicable provisions of part 23, as amended by Amendment 23-1 through
23-59 thereto.
If the Administrator finds that the applicable airworthiness
regulations (i.e., 14 CFR part 23) do not contain adequate or
appropriate safety standards for the Model 525C because of a novel or
unusual design feature, special conditions are prescribed under the
provisions of Sec. 21.16.
In addition to the applicable airworthiness regulations and special
conditions, the Model 525C must comply with the fuel vent and exhaust
emission requirements of 14 CFR part 34 and the noise certification
requirements of 14 CFR part 36; and the FAA must issue a finding of
regulatory adequacy under Sec. 611 of Public Law 92-574, the ``Noise
Control Act of 1972.''
The FAA issues special conditions, as defined in Sec. 11.19, under
Sec. 11.38 and they become part of the type certification basis under
Sec. 21.17(a)(2).
Special conditions are initially applicable to the model for which
they are issued. Should the type certificate for that model be amended
later to include any other model that incorporates the same novel or
unusual design feature, the special conditions would also apply to the
other model.
Novel or Unusual Design Features
The Cessna Model 525C will incorporate the following novel or
unusual design features: Two aft mounted Williams International FJ44-4A
turbofan engines rated at 3,400 pounds of thrust with a Full Authority
Digital Engine Control (FADEC) system and other performance
characteristics that were not envisioned by the regulations when the
Model 525 was originally certificated.
Applicability
As discussed above, these special conditions are applicable to the
Cessna Model 525C. Should Cessna Aircraft Company apply at a later date
for a change to the type certificate to include another model
incorporating the same novel or unusual design feature, the special
conditions would apply to that model as well.
Conclusion
This action affects only certain novel or unusual design features
on one model of airplane. It is not a rule of general
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applicability and affects only the applicant who applied to the FAA for
approval of these features on the airplane.
The substance of these special conditions has been subjected to the
notice and comment period in several prior instances and has been
derived without substantive change from those previously issued. It is
unlikely that prior public comment would result in a significant change
from the substance contained herein. Therefore, because a delay would
significantly affect the certification of the airplane, which is
imminent, the FAA has determined that prior public notice and comment
are unnecessary and impracticable, and good cause exists for adopting
these special conditions upon issuance. The FAA is requesting comments
to allow interested persons to submit views that may not have been
submitted in response to the prior opportunities for comment described
above.
List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 23
Aircraft, Aviation safety, Signs and symbols.
Citation
The authority citation for these special conditions is as follows:
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113 and 44701; 14 CFR 21.16 and
21.17; and 14 CFR 11.38 and 11.19.
The Special Conditions
Accordingly, pursuant to the authority delegated to me by the
Administrator, the following special conditions are issued as part of
the type certification basis for Cessna Model 525C airplanes.
1. SC 23.161, Trim
Instead of the requirements of Sec. 23.161(b)(2), the following
applies:
(b)(2) For commuter category airplanes, at all speeds from 1.4
VS1 to VMO/MMO.
2. SC 23.181, Dynamic stability
Instead of compliance with the requirements of Sec. 23.181(a), and
(d), the following applies:
(a) Any short period oscillation, not including combined lateral-
directional oscillations, occurring between 1.2 VS and the
maximum allowable speed appropriate to the configuration of the
airplane must be heavily damped with the primary controls--
(1) Free; and
(2) In a fixed position.
(d) During the conditions as specified in Sec. 23.175, when the
longitudinal control force required to maintain speeds differing from
the trim speed by at least plus and minus 15 percent or 15 knots,
whichever is less, is released after first returning the control to the
original trimmed position, the response of the airplane must not
exhibit any dangerous characteristics nor be excessive in relation to
the magnitude of the control force prior to release. Any long-period
oscillation of flight path, phugoid oscillation, that results must not
be so unstable as to increase the pilot's workload or otherwise
endanger the airplane.
Issued in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 28, 2009.
Margaret Kline,
Acting Manager, Small Airplane Directorate, Aircraft Certification
Service.
[FR Doc. E9-26596 Filed 11-3-09; 8:45 am]
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