Not to rain on your parade, but If we could do what you are wishing... we all would...(Well a lot of us would....) There was talk a few years ago about allowing a owner to de-certifying his airplane, and move it into some sport class or some such title... this would allow the owner to perform the maintance...
Well as far as I know that went no where..... the BIG problem seem to be how the next owner to re-certify the airplane.... seems the value of a decertified plane was ZERO... Any way all that aside.... there is a thing called a 51% rule... if you were to take a coupe apart, and copy the parts (or 51% of them) and put it back together using those parts..... then you would have a HOME BUILT... If you do please build at least one extra set of parts.... for me... and install one of those inverted Russian 120hp certified engines...... and maybe 30 gallons of fuel...... Unvair might get mad.... or off there butt and do it them selves.... either way we would have a NEW cool airplane... for us that do not care to build fast glass..... ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 11:26 PM Subject: Re: experimental coupe project > Gerald, That is a good question. Percy, is right on also. But let us > expand a little together. I've not seen your address before so I'm guessing > your also new to this chat site. Welcome! > You'll find a lot of us love our Ercoupes just the way they are. For good > seasons. I have toyed over in my mind to start with a total rebuild of a '46 > D that I have. Doing all the work myself. Taking it to experimental. So I can > do all the work in the future without a license. But still need and AI for > annuals. The first place I would start is a visit to the FAA to find out how > to go about it. The Ercoupe is a certificated airplane. And I think that they > would want you to keep it that way. But with it in a thousand pieces how can > they keep you from wanting to put it back in the air? Hassle that how. > OK, lets start with the pieces and see where they take us. Call them an > tell them what we want to do. See what there points are, and get back to us. > For us who do a lot of our own work this will be interesting project. > Yours, Warren Hampton > '67 Alon 5644f,'47 415 CD 3800h
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