Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: LSA Experimental

But you can still go amateur built experimental on the Ranger, I believe.
John

On Monday 31 October 2011 01:16:26 pm A. Censor wrote:
> You know, I haven't looked at the site you mention but I bet I know
> where the confusion lies. A factory cannot produce ELSAs until they
> have built at least one SLSA of the same model. I bet because of that
> the site is just listing them as SLSAs.
>
> Helen
> -------------
>
> Yup, That's one source of confusion.
> I regret I overstated in my post saying no more ELSA's can be built.
>
> There are certain perfectly good ELSA's that can no longer be built and
> certified. Because the factory is either unwilling or unable to go through
> the rather expensive and time consuming process of building and certifying
> one SLSA of that model. Case in point: My Skyranger.
> They're being built and flown in UK, Australia and Europe.
> But you can't go out and buy a kit now in the USA and build and get one
> certified here because of that "first someone has to build and certify one
> SLSA of that model" here.
>
> I believe for that same reason certain perfectly good models or RV's can't
> be built and certified anymore. I could be wrong about that one.
>
> Alex
>

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