Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group How to Tell if Aircraft is really LSA

I am old, cannot remember well. I remember a Mooney we changed while designing some wing deicing equipment though. Lets say I wanted to put an Eggenfellner Subaru engine on an Ercoupe, that would change it to experimental for instance.

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Bair" <JimBair@...> wrote:
>
> How did you do it and under which category of experimental?
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: dongeneda2000
> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 10:37 AM
> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group How to Tell if Aircraft is
> really LSA
>
>
>
>
> Are you quite sure? We used to do that back a few years ago routinely. The
> only caveat was that if you wanted to change it back to standard, you had
> one heck of a process on your hands.
>
> --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "John A. Price" <japrice@>
> wrote:
> >
> > You cannot change a standard category plane to an experimental.
> > John
> >
> >
> > On Sunday 11 October 2009 10:01:30 dongeneda2000 wrote:
> > > Thank you Helen, you seem to have made some sense out of the rules
> that
> > > sometimes seem silly. So, back to my original question, IF I were to
> change
> > > an Ercoupe to Experimental category (which means that I as an A&P
> could
> > > perform annuals on it) then I could still fly that experimental plane
> with
> > > only sport pilot priveleges, AS LONG AS I did nothing to change it out
> of
> > > the rules for LSA class aircraft?
> > >
> >
>

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