# Personnel Parachute Assemblies TSO-C23e
**AGENCY:**
Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.
**ACTION:**
Notice of cancellation.
**SUMMARY:**
The minimum performance standard (MPS) for Personnel Parachute Assemblies and Components contained in Appendix 1 of technical standard order (TSO)-C23e is substantially different from the version submitted for public comment. As such, this notice announces the cancellation of TSO-C23e.
**DATES:**
TSO-C23e is cancelled as of December 4, 2008.
**ADDRESSES:**
Send all inquiries pertaining to the cancellation of TSO-23e to: Federal Aviation Administration, Aircraft Certification Service, Aircraft Engineering Division, Room 815, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591. ATTN: George Soteropoulos, AIR-120. You may deliver your inquiries to: Federal Aviation Administration, Room 815, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591. Include in the subject line of your electronic message the following: Inquiries, FAA TSO-23e, Personnel Parachute Assemblies.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
George Soteropoulos, Aerospace Engineer, Federal Aviation Administration, Aircraft Certification Service, Aircraft Engineering Division, Technical Programs and Continued Airworthiness Branch, AIR-120, Room 815, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591. Telephone (202) 267-9796, FAX (202) 267-5340, or e-mail at: *[email protected].*
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
**Background**
It is believed that the minimum performance standard (MPS) prescribed in Appendix 1 of TSO-C23e for personnel parachute assemblies and components thereof, differs significantly from the version submitted for public comment. For that reason we are cancelling TSO-C23e to allow for further review and discussions with interested industry groups and associations to ensure safety through a coordinated agreed-upon MPS.
Issued in Washington, DC on November 19, 2008.
Susan J.M. Cabler,
Assistant Manager, Aircraft Engineering Division, Aircraft Certification Service.