airworthiness directive

noun

variants or Airworthiness Directive

: a document that notifies the owners or operators of a particular model of aircraft that unsafe or potentially unsafe conditions have been discovered which may affect the airworthiness of the model in question and that details any corrective actions which may be necessary to address the deficiency

Examples of airworthiness directive in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Last month, the FAA proposed another airworthiness directive that would require the inspection of seat assemblies on 453 Boeing 737 Max jets in case they were incorrectly installed. — Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

The service bulletin Boeing issued didn’t require plane owners to make repairs as a Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive would, and the FAA didn’t issue such a directive. — Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 19 May 2026

The service bulletin that Boeing issued didn’t require plane owners to make repairs like an FAA airworthiness directive would, and the agency didn’t issue such a directive. — Josh Funk, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is expected to issue an emergency airworthiness directive mandating the software change. — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for airworthiness directive

• enantioselective
• advective
• affective
• collective
• connective
• convective
• corrective
• defective
• detective
• effective
• elective
• infective