SAE ARP836C

This document has ben declared "CANCELLED" as of March 2012 and has been superseded by AIR 6133. By this action, this doucment will remain listed in the Numerical Section of the Aerospace Standards Index noting that it is superseded by AIR 6133.This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) is broken into various categories for convenience and ease of identification.It is the purpose of this recommended practice to provide certain criteria for the design and selection of stairways, for the boarding of passengers aboard an aircraft. The criteria presented are limited to those factors which affect the safety of the passengers and are coordinated, where applicable, with the practices of the architectural profession, with respect to the design of stairways.The recommended practices are applicable to both mobile variable-elevation type stairways and to fixed-elevation stairways of the type built into an aircraft fuselage.