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

That would seem to indicate that lets say I bought a 415C Ercoupe, relicensed it experimental due to some fairly minor changes. Even though it still met all the LSA criteria, I would not be able to fly it as a sport pilot then since it was changed?

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, Bob Comperini <bob@...> wrote:
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> >The definition of a LSA, amongst other things, say that the plane can not ever have been certificated in any other catagory.
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> The definition of the Experimental-LSA category says that. That's an airworthiness restriction. That doesn't change the generic definition of 14 CFR 1.1.
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> >True, a SP pilot can fly a plane that meets the limitations of a LSA,
> >However, that does not make that plane a LSA.
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> Semantics here, I think. if an aircraft meets the definitions, it is a "light sport aircraft" (14 CFR 1.1 says so). If you want to call it a "light sport aircraft", or if you want to just say "my plane meets the definition of a light sport aircraft", that's fine.
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> Bob Comperini
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