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Have you checked yet with your insurance company to see what affect sport planes or sport pilots would have on your insurance? What was their response?
 
Joe Williams said:
Have you checked yet with your insurance company to see what affect sport planes or sport pilots would have on your insurance? What was their response?
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Good question. And yes we did. They will have a policy ready to go very soon. That was Avemco.
 
Can any one build a light sport aircraft, or can any EXP aircraft under the weight limit be a light sport?
 
corjulo said:
Good question. And yes we did. They will have a policy ready to go very soon. That was Avemco.
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Check with Global Aerospace. They have insured me for the last 6 years and beat Avemco bid each time.
 
NC19143 said:
Can any one build a light sport aircraft, or can any EXP aircraft under the weight limit be a light sport?
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There is an experimental category within the light sport category, and many of the new ready-to-fly LSAs also come in an "assemble yourself" E-LSA version.

Now, as far as the second question goes ... once the aircraft has its airworthiness certificate it doesn't get changed. So if you have a legacy experimental that qualifies within the light sport category, it can be operated as a light sport aircraft by someone with a sport pilot certificate, but the airworthiness certificate remains in the category in which it was originally granted.
 
Ken Ibold said:
There is an experimental category within the light sport category, and many of the new ready-to-fly LSAs also come in an "assemble yourself" E-LSA version.

Now, as far as the second question goes ... once the aircraft has its airworthiness certificate it doesn't get changed. So if you have a legacy experimental that qualifies within the light sport category, it can be operated as a light sport aircraft by someone with a sport pilot certificate, but the airworthiness certificate remains in the category in which it was originally granted.
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What happens when a certified aircraft gets put into an experimental category?

Art Mattson made his Cherokee 140 an experimental while he tried out his various mods. It might still be experimental. I thought that one day he would be able to put it back in the normal category - maybe after the mods had STCs.

http://www.pipermods.com/article.htm
http://www.pipermods.com/
 
mikea said:
What happens when a certified aircraft gets put into an experimental category?

Art Mattson made his Cherokee 140 an experimental while he tried out his various mods. It might still be experimental. I thought that one day he would be able to put it back in the normal category - maybe after the mods had STCs.

http://www.pipermods.com/article.htm
http://www.pipermods.com/
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Well, yes, because in that case it's not experimental-amateur built, but rather experimental for product development. I'm not sure of all of the ins and outs of product development licensing. I was really referring to the standard vs. light sport certification issue.
 
mikea said:
What happens when a certified aircraft gets put into an experimental category?

Art Mattson made his Cherokee 140 an experimental while he tried out his various mods. It might still be experimental. I thought that one day he would be able to put it back in the normal category - maybe after the mods had STCs.

http://www.pipermods.com/article.htm
http://www.pipermods.com/
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There are several different kinds of experimental airworthiness certificates. The two most commonly seen flying are amateur-built and exhibition, but there are many others such as research/development, air racing, crew training to name a few.
 
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