Re: Professionally built?

Marc J. Zeitlin wrote:
cavelamb himself wrote:

You would not have been allowed to register the second copy as experimental - amateur built.


Huh?


Scott wrote:

Hmmm...I wasn't aware of THAT!


That's because it's not correct. There are numerous folks that have built more than one aircraft, even of the same type, and had no issues at all with registering them in the experimental amateur built category, even if they have sold the previous ones. The only restriction is that the plane is built for education and/or recreation. If those criteria are met, what you did with it after you built it is not an issue.

I've built two aircraft - neither time was I asked (or was it researched) by the FAA inspectors - not DARs - as to whether I'd built a plane before, what type it was, or what had happened to it (or whether I still had it).

If the FAA believes that an aircraft was NOT built for education or recreation, but for profit, then they will not certificate it in the Exp. Am-Built category, but that's rare, even when it shouldn't be rare.


Thinkg have changed since the 1950's.

You guys go talk to some of the old timere at the EAA meetings about this.
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