What is required and what is legal is the same thing. All the required work is required and so is the paper work to make it legal. If one does all the work and does not do the paper work to change the model, he is flying his aircraft illegally. I am not talking about the fellow who flys over gross but the fellow who changes his elevator to D specs and files a 337 for it but does not follow through on the registration. This is where our buddies the lawyers will have a feeding frenzy. If the 337 was filed, the log book says the work was done but the model change was not complete, I would not buy the aircraft as a C. If the logs are complete and there is no mention of the work being done then I would feel OK with it. If the logs are missing then maybe, but if I saw a 337 on the FAA CD I don't think so. None of this is legal advice, just as I see it and I am sure some judges will agree and some won't but I won't lose and sleep over it.
Kevin --- In [email protected], "Ed Burkhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kevin wrote: > > Correct, the 337 does not mean that a mod was completed it > > is only the approval to do it. You should always get your 337's > > approved before doing the work. Where this would bite > > someone would be if some of the log books were missing. In > > that case it would be impossible to prove that the mod was not > > done or was done then undone. > > Then there's the question of what is REQUIRED to convert the aircraft to the > higher model so it may LEGALLY be flown with the higher gross weight. > > There's some reason to think that getting the form 337 approved and even > doing the modification is not sufficient for the legal model change. It may > be NECESSARY to have gotten the airworthiness certificate upgraded, > reflecting the new model, before the change is legal and it's legal to fly > at the higher gross weight. > > If that is the case, are planes whose airworthiness certificates were never > changed ALL still eligible for LSA? How about if the owner THOUGHT the > change was done and flew it for years as a D but never finished the process > legally? > > Is there a way to get this determined finally and officially short of > waiting till AFTER an incident and mucking around with some poor schmuck > footing the entire legal bill to prove the case in court? > > Or, is it best to sit down, shut up and keep mum? > > I sure don't know. > > Ed >
