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Don bowen
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Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] C or D?
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 19:52:06 -0500
For some reason I am unable to post to everyone, so if you can pass this along, it may be helpful.I just received a CD from the FAA of all the records pertaining to my Ercoupe. I had converted my C to a D then an E for greater useful load and safety long before the sport pilot category came out. Well, I never have been able to get to the FSDO to make the change in my registration, but the 337s for all the changes I made are in the records I ordered. So if you have not sent in any 337s, you are okay, but if you have, the records are there and I am sure you could get into hot water with the FAA trying to pass off the plane as something it is not.In the end, I have a better and safer airplane and I am very happy with the conversion! Peace of mind is priceless. I also did the rivet non destructive test and found two bad rivets which were promptly replaced. Again, the peace of mind was worth it to me.Jim----- Original Message -----From: DONALD BOWENSent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 6:40 PMSubject: RE: [COUPERS-FLYIN] C or D?----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]----I personally wouldn't advise that. He may have already shot himself in the foot by stating his intentions, for posterity, in the Coupers archives. Don't you think that at least a few FEDS - with time on their hands - may amuse themselves by reading our posts? Paranoia or reality? Don
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:50:04 -0700
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Subject: RE: [COUPERS-FLYIN] C or D?
To: [email protected]----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]----Tom,Would you mind sharing the N number of the airplane in question?Tim
Ed Burkhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]----
Tom,
Can ALL paperwork traces of any conversion to D be lost? Can you be sure of
it? Are there any form 337s that have been submitted to the FAA which list
the model as 415-D? If you look at the "microfische" or CD of the
airplane's documents, is there any mention of 415-Dness?
If you can effectively claim that the conversion was never done, that it was
always a C, then I guess it has always been a C.
If the insurance company can find paperwork showing it was a D, they can
deny your claim, perhaps leaving you liable for big bucks not to mention the
value of the airplane.
If you have no paperwork showing it is a D but the insurance company or the
FAA comes up with some paperwork showing it was once converted, then you
were flying it illegally. But the FAA may not "violate" you if you had no
reason to think it was illegal.
In fact, the Sport Pilot rule is explicit as Roy quoted. It must meet and
always have met the LSA specifications to ever again be flown by a Sport
Pilot.
Approach this one cautiously.
Ed Burkhead
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