N256DP
Registered owner: ZIPLINE INTERNATIONAL INC, CA (owner ≠ operator)
Operators of this aircraft
Who operated this tail, and how firmly we know it.
No operator established for this aircraft.
Accident & incident history
No NTSB accidents or incidents on file for this aircraft.
Maintenance disclosures
Service Difficulty Reports filed with the FAA for this airframe. Filing is largely voluntary — the number of reports is not a measure of reliability. To verify a report, search its control number at the FAA SDRS site.
2 reports on file, 2015-01-26 – 2015-06-18.
Part: ACTUATOR — FAULTED (TE FLAPS) · airframe 1,059 hrs · 1,330 cycles
AFTER LANDING THE PILOT REPORTED A FLAP FAIL CAS MESSAGE. TRIED TO PERFORM A FLAP RESET PROCEDURE, UPON FIRST CYCLE OF FLAP SAME CAS MESSAGE. UPON TROUBLE SHOOTING WITH MAINTENANCE COMPUTER IT WAS FOUND THAT THE FAILED FLAP ACTUATOR WAS CAUSING LVDT POSITION DISAGREE. (INTERNAL FAILURE IN LVDT). PART WAS REMOVED AND REPLACED.
Part: DUCT — CRACKED (EXHAUST) · airframe 972 hrs · 1,227 cycles
DURING THE 12 MONTH/300 HOUR ENGINE INSPECTION ON THE LT AND RT ENGINES ON THE ACFT, A VISUAL INSPECTION OF THE LT ENGINE EXHAUST AREA NOTED A PIECE OF THE ENGINE OUTER BYPASS DUCT MISSING. APPROXIMATELY 6" SECTION MISSING, BETWEEN 10 O'CLOCK AND 1 O'CLOCK AS VIEWED FROM AFT TO FORWARD, AND THE RT ENGINE BYPASS DUCT SHOWED A CRACK APPROXIMATELY 4' LONG. APPEARS THAT THERE WERE PREVIOUS STOP DRILLS TO THE AREA ON THE LT ENGINE AND THE CRACKS PROPAGATED BEYOND THE STOP DRILL. NO EVIDENCE OF FOD DAMAGE TO THE ACFT. INSPECTED THE LT TURBINE EXHAUST MIXER NOZZLE AND NOTED A FEW AREAS OF SCRATCHING FROM THE LOOSE BYPASS DUCTS. IAW MFG ENGINEERING, THE AREA ON THE MIXER NOZZLE WAS BLENDED AND INSPECTED AND FOUND ACCEPTABLE FOR CONTINUED SERVICE. THE OUTER BYPASS DUCTS WILL BE REPLACED.