ED, Woody,
 I was at a IA. renewal 2 years ago. The Faa was talking about not 
being able to change planes to fit in this group. After his talk I 
went up and talked to him. And yes he was on the side of the coupers, 
but his exact words were we can thank the C120-140 club for wrecking 
it for us. They were still working out the details on the new regs. 
He said the C120 groupe came in and said we have a STC that will 
lower the gross on our planes. It called for taking out the 2nd seat 
and doing alot more. The FAA said we don't want this, and said that 
no modifications could be done to meet the new catigory. I said that 
I agree with that, but that an airplane that was origanly and 
certified under the 1320 lbs. should be able to go back. When all it 
would take is to rerig the elevator and not have to remove anything.  
Then I said it's nuts for a coupe owner to have to sell his D-model 
and buy a C-model to get in the light sport. He agreed and said that 
once it got though that he would make my sugestion. So ther still may 
be some hope. But I think that it would take a very big push from a 
big grope of people to get it done. Mark 


--- In [email protected], "Ed Burkhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> 
> Woody,
> 
> P.S.  There's no such thing as a "C/D" model.  There're only 
the "C", the "CD", "D", "E"
> and "G".  Any aircraft paperwork that says C/D should be examined 
extra carefully and
> resolved since someone has messed up the paperwork somewhat.
> 
> Reference: Aircraft Specification A-718 and A-787, both of which 
are linked from my
> Coupe page.
> http://edburkhead.com/Ercoupe/index.htm 
> 
> Ed
>


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