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

I don't know the exact standing, but at one time the Ranger was a e a/b kit. I
don't know if they then switched to SLSA...
An acquaintance of mine had one of the e a/b's.
John

On Tuesday 01 November 2011 08:28:19 am James Bair wrote:
> I am getting the feeling that people are confusing terms. I thought ELSA
> and SLSA were being talked about, and then E-AB got tossed into the mix.
> You can't take anything and turn it into an E-AB. If you build from
> scratch (plans built), no problem, but if you take an existing aircraft
> model (SLSA, for example) and assemble the parts yourself, that doesn't
> necessarily qualify it to be registered as an E-AB. The reason there are
> a zillion RV's out there is that they have been approved as a kit. I
> built a trike once that came that way, in a box of about a million pieces.
> It was not an approved kit so I could not register E-AB. A couple of
> years later, I built an Air Cam which came in maybe less pieces because I
> had the fuselage prebuilt to save time and it was registered E-AB because
> it was an approved kit. (Disclaimer: The numbers were made up because
> that's about how it feels sometimes. haha Exact numbers wasn't the
> point.)
>
> Jim
>
> From: Robert Taylor
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 9:30 PM
> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: LSA Experimental
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> Can they not be registered and certified as E-AB? I know of no RV's that
> can't be certified E-AB. Can't you build your Skyranger and certify it
> E-AB? Why is that not an option? Maybe I'm confused....
>
> Bob Taylor
> TigerCub N657RT
>
> From: A. Censor
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 1:16 PM
> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: LSA Experimental
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> 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
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> 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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