Larry wrote-
>as the KR series was the reason for the birth of Wick's, if
>they would be up to sponsering / co-ordinating the 35 for 35 fly-in
>to Oshkosh .
I posted information here in connection with this topic in Feb, 2002, where
I mentioned that
in 2007 the KR2 design would be 30 years old and builders would be eligible
to apply the "NX" registration prefix in lieu of a passenger warning
placard. Here's a snip from my post, as well as the text of the applicable
FAR:
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it's FAR 45.22(b). It doesn't say you can prefix the
registration number with an "X"... it always has to start with an "N" but
under the provisions of this FAR it can be "NX..." and the large passenger
notification "EXPERIMENTAL" at the entry to the cockpit can be dispensed
with. Here's the text of the FAR, from the EAA Homebuilders' website:
(b) A small U.S.-registered aircraft built at least 30 years ago or a
U.S.-registered aircraft for which an experimental certificate has been
issued under § 21.191(d) or 21.191(g) for operation as an exhibition
aircraft or as an amateur built aircraft and which has the same external
configuration as an aircraft built at least 30 years ago may be operated
without displaying marks in accordance with §§ 45.21 and 45.23 through 45.33
if:
(1) It displays in accordance with § 45.21(c) marks at least 2 inches high
on each side of the fuselage or vertical tail surface consisting of the
Roman capital letter "N" followed by:
(i) The U.S. registration number of the aircraft; or
(ii) The symbol appropriate to the airworthiness certificate of the aircraft
("C", standard; "R", restricted; "L", limited; or "X", experimental)
followed by the U.S. registration number of the aircraft; and
(2) It displays no other mark that begins with the letter "N" anywhere on
the aircraft, unless it is the same mark that is displayed under paragraph
(b)(1) of this section.
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As I read the FAR, as an example- next year Mark Langford could remove the
"EXPERIMENTAL" placard on his airplane and change the registration numbers
on the side of the airplane to "NX56ML" and be legal. The registration
number does NOT change -you won't find any "NX-" prefix numbers in the FAA
registry- but you can display the number that way in lieu of the passenger
warning placard. My Pietenpol, NX41CC, is marked this way (the Piet was
designed in 1932).
Oscar Zuniga
San Antonio, TX
mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
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