Any living person can make any installations or repairs to an experimental plane. The only thing that they need the repairman’s certificate for is the conditional inspection. That can also be done with an A&P. (IA not required)
To get the repairman’s you have to build 51% of the plane. It would be easier and cheaper to get an A&P than do that on an already built plane if it would even be possible.
Bill B
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Mark Steitle
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 10:03 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Turbo 3-rotor Lancair For Sale
Tom,
Thanks for the insight. A friend of mine sent me the link. I took him for a ride in my ES and he really liked how it flew.
From the pics, I too spotted the location of the intercooler and wondered why he located it there. Not too efficient way back near the firewall. It was probably the only place it would fit once everything else was in place.
The intake looks to me to be custom welded aluminum. You can't quite make it out, but it looks like he may have used the lower portion of the 20b cast aluminum intake and fabricated the rest from aluminum tube.
Also, the panel shows a Blue Mountain EFIS. As you know, BMA is out of business, so that would have to be replaced too.
If he's already used the free FAA repairman's certificate, then it would cost someone a small fortune to get it finished up, unless the buyer was an A&P. Could someone make a "major modification" like replacing the engine with a certified engine, then reapply for a new airworthiness certificate (and repairman's certificate)?
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Thomas Giddings <tom@midwestaviation.net> wrote:
Mark: This Lancair has been for sale this year without the engine for 70K. I called on a similar add on Barnstormers and was told the engine had been removed and the engine had been sold. The guy I talked to on the phone said they could not keep the engine cool enough to fly it. So they gave up and he told me they had a Continental sourced that could be bought with the airframe. I was interested in buying the engine as it looks like it has the Mistral intake. I liked the intercooler as well. Although it looks like it is in a Bad spot to get heat soaked.
On Dec 23, 2011, at 7:36 AM, Mark Steitle wrote:
Anyone know whose project this is. Looks like it could be a good buy for someone.