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Piper Grounds M600 Fleet for Spar Inspections
Wing spar inspection required.

Late last week Piper grounded its M600 single-engine turboprop fleet after it "became aware of a potential non-conformance in a vendor-sourced wing component," company CEO Simon Caldecott announced Monday at AirVenture. Caldecott identified the component as "a section of the aft wing spar" that was found to be "below the required design measurements in one area." Caldecott said Piper believes the problem is confined to "one rogue part" but grounded the fleet "out of an abundance of caution" after the vendor was unable "to provide the appropriate data."


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