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> Light Sport Aircraft are certificated aircraft; they are
> certificated in the LSA category. Our Ercoupes are
> certificated in the Standard category.
> But I believe you are correct, the 16 hour course Light
> Sport Repairman certificate only
allows you to work on
> your own LSA certificated aircraft.
Light Sport Aircraft are not “certificated”
– they are “certified,” I think. That’s a bit
lower level of an approval.
Maintenance on a “certificated”
aircraft must be done by or under supervision of an A&P and, if major, signed
off by an AI. The “annual inspection” of a certificated
aircraft must be signed off by an AI.
Maintenance on an experimental aircraft
may be done by anyone and an annual “condition inspection” must be
signed off by an A&P or by the builder who possesses a repairman
certificate for that
plane.
Maintenance on an experimental Light Sport
Aircraft (ELSA) may be done by anyone and the annual “condition
inspection” must be signed off by a.) an A&P, b.) an appropriately
rated LSA “repairman (maintenance) [120 hour course] or c.) the owner of that plane who
possesses an appropriate “repairman (inspection)” certificate [16
hour course].
Maintenance on a factory built SLSA
(Special Light Sport Aircraft) [legal to be used as a trainer] must be done by
an appropriately rated LSA “repairman (maintenance)” [120 hour
course] or an A&P. The annual inspection (or condition inspection)
must be signed off at the same level.
Ed Burkhead
http://edburkhead.com
ed -at-
edburkhead???.com (change
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