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I just had an IA re-assemble a Citabria for me after being apart for 10 
years to get a re-cover done.  He didn't do a 337, just a log book entry.
I 
guess it's all in what one thinks constitutes "Major".
Dick in NM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Wilkens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:05 AM
Subject: [COUPERS-TECH] When is an alteration or repair become major
enough 
to require a 337?


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> Question for the AP guys
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> At what point does an alteration or repair become major enough to
require 
> a 337?
>
> The question comes about because; I pulled some old wiring and antennas 
> off 904 and had the local shop patch the skin.  (There was no paper work

> on the radio or antennas I removed.)  They tell me a log book entry is 
> enough.  They also repaired the line of rivets where the fuselage meets 
> the right wing walk (it had a blister in the sheet metal, but no 
> corrosion).  They placed a backer under the wing walk and replaced the 
> rivets.  The blister left a scar if you look hard enough, but a least I 
> know it is airworthy.  They also tell me that a log book entry is enough

> for this too.
>
> I don't really care, I just don't want an AP or an AI ten years from now

> telling me a 337 should have been filed.  What they are telling me would

> be in line with other log book entries that do not to have 337s.  For 
> example I have one date in 1956 that says "Aircraft was disassembled and

> reassemble" and there is no 337 on it.
>
> Richard
> N99904
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