Piper Aircraft Corporation Malibu Mirage PA-46-350P, Airplane Maintenance Manual

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Feb 28/07
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PIPER AIRCRAFT, INC.
PA-46-350P, MALIBU MIRAGE
MAINTENANCE MANUAL
2. Taxi Light Replacement
A. A 50 watt taxi light is located within the leading edge of each wing inboard of the tip.
B. If the strobes have just been in operation, wait five minutes for high voltage bleed down to occur
before removing wing access panel located on the lower surface of the wing just inboard of the wing
tip by removing the 12 screw securing to the wing. The strobe power supply is attached to this wing
access panel with 4 screws an eight AN960-10 washers.
C. Remove access panel and unplug strobe power supply connectors, so access panel with power
supply still attached can be set aside. This will prevent weight of power supply from pulling on
electrical harness (refer to Figure 1).
D. Disconnect taxi light, and electrical connectors from rear of light.
E. Remove four bracket retaining screws from the assembly. These screw are removed from the
external surface of the wing; 2 on the bottom and 2 on top.
F. Slide the light bracket assembly aft and down and out through access opening.
G. To remove lens, squeeze lens gently and slide forward, out of edge of wing structure, ensuring the
gasket does not slide off and into the wing.
H. To remove lamp from light assembly, snap lens cover off of the reflector and replace the lamp.
I. Installation is reverse of preceding stops.
Recognition / Taxi Light
Figure 2