Check the Safety of Your Cessna
210 with CPA’s Guidelines
The Cessna Pilots Association (CPA) has released
“Cessna 210 Centurion Inspection Guidelines” to help
Cessna 210 owners and their mechanics better inspect
their aircraft.
The impetus for this publication came from a
discussion CPA Executive Director John Frank had with an
NTSB investigator after a crash. Frank asked if the
cracks that led to structural failure in a different
manufacturer’s airplane had been present before the
final flight. The inspector confirmed that some degree
of cracks had been present for some time.
“If someone had known what to inspect, how
to inspect it and when to inspect it, that accident
could have been avoided,” says Frank. “That is what
these guidelines are all about.”
“Cessna 210 Centurion Inspection Guidelines"
shows the aircraft owner and the mechanic how to
determine what to inspect on a Cessna 210 Centurion, how
to perform the inspection and when to do the
inspection.
Adds Frank, “These guidelines have been
developed from multiple sources within the industry
including Cessna Aircraft Company, the FAA, component
manufacturers, field reports and 25 years of collecting
information from members of the Cessna Pilots
Association.”
Cessna Pilots Association calls this a
“living document” and will continue to update it as new
information, member input and new data warrant. The
Cessna 210 is the first airplane selected for a planned
series of Inspection Guidelines that Cessna Pilots
Association is developing for most models of Cessna
aircraft.
To order a copy of “Cessna 210 Centurion
Inspection Guidelines,” you must be a Cessna Pilots
Association member. The Inspection Guidelines document
is available for $60.00 plus shipping and may be ordered
by calling CPA at 805/934-0493.
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Based in Santa Maria, California, the Cessna Pilots
Association has 14,000 active members who rely on the
association for technical support about their aircraft,
including access to the most extensive technical library
on Cessnas outside the factory.