Extra 300LT Maintenance Manual – Complete Aircraft Service & Repair Guide (Doc. EA-0D702)

Description

The Extra 300LT Maintenance Manual is the complete aircraft service and repair guide for the EXTRA 300LT aerobatic monoplane. Issued as Document No. EA-0D702, this 2nd Edition manual is dated 7 July 2010 and was approved under the authority of EASA DOA N° EASA.21J.073. It covers every maintenance system on the aircraft, from airworthiness limitations and scheduled inspection intervals through to composite repair, flight controls, fuel, landing gear, propeller, powerplant and the Christen inverted oil system. Written for licensed maintenance personnel, it provides the procedures, torque values and inspection data needed to keep this high-performance two-seat aerobatic aircraft airworthy.

File Details

• Manual type: Aircraft Maintenance Manual
• Brand / model: EXTRA 300LT
• Document number: EA-0D702
• Edition: 2nd Edition (complete manual except Chapter 4)
• Date of issue: 7 July 2010
• Language: English
• Page count: 432 pages
• File format: PDF

Chapters Covered

• Chapter 1 — Introduction
• Chapter 2 — How to Use the Service Manual
• Chapter 3 — General Description (construction, flight controls, brakes, powerplant, fuel, electrical, instruments)
• Chapter 4 — Airworthiness Limitations (temperature limit, operating time, life limited components)
• Chapter 5 — Time Limits / Maintenance Checks (scheduled checks, lubrication charts, significant items inspection, unscheduled checks)
• Chapter 6 — Dimensions and Areas
• Chapter 7 — Lifting and Shoring
• Chapter 8 — Leveling and Weighing
• Chapter 9 — Towing and Taxiing
• Chapter 10 — Parking, Mooring, Storage and Return to Service
• Chapter 12 — Servicing (refueling, defueling, oil, brake fluid, tire inflation, cleaning)
• Chapter 20 — Standard Practices — Airframe (bolts, torque values, coin tapping, flexible hose, fittings, control cables)
• Chapter 21 — Air Conditioning (heating system, inlet box, distribution box, Bowden cables)
• Chapter 23 — Communication (VHF whip antenna)
• Chapter 24 — Electrical Power (battery, alternator, drive belt, circuit breakers, relays)
• Chapter 25 — Equipment and Furnishings (front and rear seats, seat belts, document bag)
• Chapter 27 — Flight Controls (aileron, rudder, elevator, trim tab, torque tube)
• Chapter 28 — Fuel (storage, distribution, indicating, selector valve, gascolator, boost pump)
• Chapter 31 — Indication / Recording System (instrument panels, stall warning)
• Chapter 32 — Landing Gear (main gear, tail spring, tail wheel, wheels and brakes)
• Chapter 33 — Lights (navigation/strobe, landing light)
• Chapter 34 — Navigation (pitot/static, altimeter, airspeed indicator, compass, transponder)
• Chapter 51 — Standard Practices and Structures — General (access panels, damage classification, materials, control surface balancing, repairs)
• Chapter 53 — Fuselage (canopy, main fuselage cover, bottom fuselage cover, cowling)
• Chapter 55 — Stabilizers (horizontal stabilizer, elevator, vertical stabilizer, rudder)
• Chapter 57 — Wings (wing removal/installation, ailerons)
• Chapter 61 — Propeller (governor, RPM vernier control cable)
• Chapter 71 — Power Plant (cowling, engine mount, shock mounts, air baffles)
• Chapter 72 — Engine (troubleshooting, removal/installation)
• Chapter 73 — Engine Fuel and Control (throttle, mixture, fuel pressure indicating)
• Chapter 77 — Engine Indicating (RPM, manifold pressure, CHT, EGT, MVP-50P)
• Chapter 78 — Exhaust (collector, muffler, gasket, heat shield)
• Chapter 79 — Oil System (Christen inverted oil system, oil cooler, oil pressure and temperature indicating)

Across these chapters the manual gives a complete picture of the EXTRA 300LT airframe and its systems. It opens with the general description and airworthiness limitations, then moves into the scheduled maintenance programme — 25, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 and 1000 hour checks, plus the 1000-hour Significant Items Inspection. From there each system is covered in turn: the steel-tube fuselage with its composite covers, the fibre-composite wing and stabilizers, the push-pull and cable flight control system, the hydraulically operated Cleveland disc brakes, the Lycoming AEIO-580-B1A engine installation with its Christen inverted oil system, the MT-Propeller three-blade constant-speed propeller, the fuel system with its center, acro and wing tanks, and the full electrical and indicating system. Repair guidance for composite and steel components, control surface balancing data and a comprehensive torque value section are also included.

What This Extra 300LT Manual Enables

This is not a general aerobatic aircraft book. It is the EXTRA 300LT service and repair manual as issued by the manufacturer, and it supports real maintenance work on this specific type. A technician can use it to plan and carry out the full scheduled inspection programme, to remove and reinstall the wing, stabilizers, flight controls, landing gear and engine, to rig the aileron, rudder and elevator systems, to adjust the trim tab, to bleed the brakes, to service the inverted oil system, to diagnose fuel and indicating faults, and to repair composite structure to the correct layer sequences and cure cycles.

The manual also contains the values that make the difference between a correct job and a dangerous one — control surface deflection tolerances, torque values for the main spar bolts and landing gear clamps, brake disc wear limits, tire pressure, fuel and oil capacities, composite temperature limits, and the life-limited component replacement times. For an aircraft used for aerobatics, where airframe and control system stresses are high, having these figures on hand is essential.

Who This Manual Is For

Licensed airframe and powerplant mechanics, aircraft maintenance organisations, owner-operators who maintain their own aircraft, and engineering students studying the EXTRA 300LT will all find this document directly useful. It is written for trained personnel who are already familiar with aircraft maintenance practice, and it assumes access to the relevant Lycoming, MT-Propeller, Christen, Cleveland and avionics vendor publications for component-level overhaul.

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Every procedure, tolerance and specification in this 432-page Extra 300LT aircraft service manual is delivered as an instant PDF download — no shipping, no waiting. Open it on a laptop, tablet or phone in the hangar, print the pages you need for the job at hand, and keep the complete document on file. Whether you are performing a routine 100-hour inspection, chasing an electrical fault, rebuilding a landing gear leg or repairing a composite panel, this Extra 300LT repair and maintenance guide gives you the manufacturer’s own instructions in one place.