Service bulletins from aircraft manufacturers may not trigger an exception to the 18-year statute of repose found in the federal General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994, a unanimous en banc panel of the Superior Court has ruled, because they are issued too frequently and would ruin the act’s intent.
In writing for the panel, Judge Correale Stevens dismissed the appellant’s argument to have service bulletins treated in the same manner as instruction manuals. He described the argument as having “no merit.” Instruction manuals, Stevens wrote, may be defective for failing to supply “critical information,” but the same cannot be said for service bulletins.
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