New FAA Registration Rules Coming

[51fixer]

If you are not aware of this aircraft ownership is getting more paperwork required. I was just made aware of this-
I couldn't get the link in the story to work.
The FAA.GOV site has material here-
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-23964.pdf

From the LPBA Journal-

On July 20, 2010, the Federal Aviation Administration ('FAA") issued a final rule,

Re-Registration and Renewal of Aircraft Registration, http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2O1O/pdf/2010-17572.pdf ("Final Rule"),

that will require the re-registration of all aircraft registered prior to October 1, 2010. ln addition, the Final Rule
states that all aircraft registrations issued after October 1, 2010 will expire and, therefore, need to be
re-registered every three (3) years.

[John Dupre]

This has been in the works for a while. Basically the FAA has no idea how many aircraft in the US are active or even still exist. So thier answer is to return to re-registering aircraft periodically. I believe up until the 1940s or 50s that was standard practice. The new plastic pilot and mechanic certificates are also a way of counting the active pilot and mechanic population as well as modernizing the document itself.

[Stearman75972]

I was looking for a tail dragger airplane in Florida and used the FAA records to see if I could locate one. I sent a number of letters to the addresses listed and it seems that almost one in three either came back or I received a call that the plane in question was no longer around. I know of company listed that has 17 planes still with the FAA, C-54G, B-25, Sikorsky UH-34D, Bell 47G-3. One plane crashed in South American on a CIA flight, part of the Iran-Contra affair. Gave them the article as to this plane crashed but they still want the company to contact them. I told the FAA that the owner died in 1992 in a Skyraider crash but they want the company to cancel the registrations. As far as I know the company is long gone. I just gave up talking to them about these planes. Let them figure it out.

[aerovin]

Let them figure it out.

I think that's what they are doing.

[John Dupre]

I once annualed an airplane and it only had an expired temporary pink registration that was ten years old! The owner had never applied for the actual registration. Supposedly you can still find the original A&P #1 in the FAA data base though the holder of that number died in the 1960s. There are several airplanes around here that are probably going to end up deregistered including a Great Lakes biplane I have had my eye on. (Even so I could neve put my wallet on it.)