KRNetters; Unless I misunderstand the regs, or unless they have changed recently, a KR1 being a 1-place aircraft (no passengers) does not and never has required that the EXPERIMENTAL wording appear on the plane, inside or out, but the pilot must still announce him/herself to ATC as "experimental November such-and-such" on radio calls. It also does not require the passenger warning placard in the cockpit.
In addition, since 2004 (the KR2 was introduced 30 years earlier, in 1974) a KR2 or 2S does not require the EXPERIMENTAL wording if the registration markings on the plane also include X (for experimental) in the required registration markings following the leading N- in the markings. This is due to the airplane being an amateur-built aircraft with the same external configuration as an aircraft built at least 30 years ago. For example, my Pietenpol Air Camper is externally configured identical to the original 1929 Air Camper so instead of bearing the registration marks "N41CC", it bears "NX41CC" and I do not have the EXPERIMENTAL signage near the passenger entrance to the plane and I do not have the passenger warning placard. I am still required to notify passengers that my plane is an experimental. As another example, if he wanted to, Mark Langford could put the markings NX891JF on his current KR and do away with the EXPERIMENTAL lettering on the inside of the canopy on the passe nger side. I believe that Advisory Circular AC 45-2E, page 7, section 7.1.2 bears me out on the foregoing statements, but I stand to be corrected. One thing I have found out, however, is that when I communicate with ATC, I cannot announce myself as "experimental November Xray four-one Charlie Charlie". Only as "November four-one Charlie Charlie", despite the markings on the airplane. Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -Change list delivery options at https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ -Search John Bouyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/
