A Standard category aircraft cannot be converted to experimental except as an R&D or exhibition category, which are severely limited in their allowed operation. Some models of AC have had STC weight increases that take them out of the ability to be used as sport AC, they cannot be returned to their original certification. Erocoupes converted to D models is one example that comes to mind. An Experimental LS is the only AC you can take the 16 hour course on and get the certification to do all the work. For an Experimental AB you must be the builder who registered the AC to receive the non transferable repairman's certificate.
--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, Bob Comperini <bob@...> wrote:
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> > That said, I'm 99% sure you can later "convert" a standard category aircraft to reregister it as Experimental, if you want, so first have the advantages of not scaring off CFIs and later the advantages of the experimental registration.
> > (Someone here mentioned that he took, as I did, a 16 hour Light Sport Mechanic course, which allows us to do our own annual inspections.)
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> That 16 hour course would not help someone who registers a standard category plane as an experimental. It also does not help someone else their experimental is certificated in the "operating as a light sport" experimental subcategory.
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