Document ID: FAA-2008-1357-0001
Agency: faa
Document Type: Rule
Title: Personnel Parachute Assemblies TSO-C23d
Posted Date: 2008-12-24T05:00Z

[Federal Register: December 24, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 248)]
[Notices]               
[Page 79203]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

 
Personnel Parachute Assemblies TSO-C23d

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of re-activation.

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SUMMARY: The Minimum Performance Standard for Personnel Parachute 
Assemblies and Components contained in technical standard order (TSO)-
C23d, dated June 1, 1994, is re-activated.

DATES: TSO-C23d is re-activated as of December 24, 2008.

ADDRESSES: Send all inquiries pertaining to the re-activation of TSO-
23d to: Federal Aviation Administration, Aircraft Certification 
Service, Aircraft Engineering Division, 5th Floor, 950 L'Enfant Plaza, 
SW., Washington, DC 20024, ATTN: Hal Jensen, AIR 120. You may deliver 
your inquiries to: Federal Aviation Administration, 5th Floor, 950 
L'Enfant Plaza, SW., Washington, DC 20024. Include in the subject line 
of your electronic message the following: Inquiries, FAA TSO-23d, 
Personnel Parachute Assemblies.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hal Jensen, Aerospace Engineer, 
Federal Aviation Administration, Aircraft Certification Service, 
Aircraft Engineering Division, Technical Programs and Continued 
Airworthiness Branch, AIR-120, 5th Floor, 950 L'Enfant Plaza, SW., 
Washington, DC 20024. Telephone (202) 385-6334, FAX (202) 385-6475, or 
e-mail at: hal.jensen@faa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    Technical Standard Order (TSO)-C23d is being reinstated to allow 
for new models of personnel parachute assemblies to continue to be 
manufactured while we correct the issues associated with the now 
cancelled ``e'' version of TSO-C23. You may get a copy of TSO-C23d by 
logging onto: http://rgl.faa.gov/, select Technical Standard Orders and 
Index, and then select Active Historical.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on December 17, 2008.
Susan J.M. Cabler,
Assistant Manager, Aircraft Engineering Division, Aircraft 
Certification Service.
[FR Doc. E8-30638 Filed 12-23-08; 8:45 am]

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