Originally Posted by
stevef
I'm curious whether your previous few Annual Inspections had called for tank removal? Good inspection should have caught the corrosion in its early stage.
The fuel tanks have not been removed from my PA-28-180 in at least the last 20 years. Several different inspectors have signed off this aircraft and none has required removal of the tanks. None of the Piper mandatory SB or resulting AD has, to the best of my knowledge, required removal of the fuel tanks. If this was a commnon problem I would have expected a mandatory SB and an AD.
Have any of the PA-28 with spar corrosion hidden by the fuel tanks been hangared or were all kept outside in the weather?