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Jan wrote:
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my coupe has a little quirk, and
I'm not sure which
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way I wanna go. I always like
doing things
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legal-schmegal; I bought it as a D
model, but all
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the public records have it as a C
model. The
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airworthiness certificate says C,
the registration
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from the FAA says C, yet it has a
D data plate
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and has the extra sheet metal over
the header tank.
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The logs have no entry as being
converted.
Jan,
It seems to me that your options are clear:
If no form 337 was ever sent to the FAA, if no logbook entry
was ever done and no revised airworthiness certificate was ever applied for,
then the conversion was never legally done. Just some yo-yo messed up your
data plate. You might double check the annual inspection entries to be sure
the AI didn’t make an entry that might be a problem for you or him.
(Of course, you and you’re A&P need to make sure
all your rigging conforms to the C/CD model specs.)
The data plate – was that a from the factory perfect
data plate or was it modified with a metal stamp? If it was from Univair, I’d
send it back to them and say that there must have been some mistake since the
conversion was never done and you need a C data plate please. If it was hand-modified,
I’d deface any bogus “D” marking and send it to Univair for a
replacement, clean “C” data plate.
If the conversion was never done properly, then it was never
done. You have all the options in my personal, non-expert, unofficial opinion.
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