Brame, I gotta admit, it was a long time ago, and I was just an office boy at the time, trawling through ADs and FARs trying to make sense of an Australian C of A...
My first response to your post was going to be that it was certified to FAR23 but I looked up it's type certificate (for old times sake
) and there is some reference to SFAR 41. It also has a separate TCDS (A18SW) to the 226 and early 227 models(A5SW/A8SW) so again I don't remember exactly how I came to this information long ago. No doubt, knowing how CASA (CAA) works, this is some doing of theirs...
Icarus, I'm talking the querky location of the Aircraft's Australian ADs. Ergo, as referred to above, the on-line defect report is in 'under 5700kgs'
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