Aircraft
Flap over premier I
The FAA issued a special airworthiness bulletin on October 7 alerting operators of the Raytheon Beech Premier I that the agency has determined that the jet

The FAA issued a special airworthiness bulletin on October 7 alerting operators of the Raytheon Beech Premier I that the agency has determined that the jet’s flap actuators are “nonconforming” parts, fabricated from material that might be subject to “brittle failures at cold temperatures.”

There have been no reported failures of flap actuators on the more than 65 Premier Is in service, but the components are made by MPC Products of Skokie, Ill., and are similar to the actuator that MPC made for the horizontal stabilizer of the Learjet 45.