Dave sent the question:
> I just saw a Kitfox ad that said the plane was LSA certified > and could be self-annualled after 2 days of school. > Do you know anything about the 2 day school for doing > your own annual? Dave, Experimental LSA aircraft may have the annual inspection signed off by the owner if the owner has taken the 16 hour course to earn the "Repairman (maintenance)" certificate and gotten that owned aircraft listed on his/her certificate. Once you've taken the course for a class of planes (i.e. fixed wing), then you can get your Repairman (maintenance) certificate changed to include any new ELSA plane of the correct class you buy. As the ELSA is experimental, anyone can do maintenance, even with no certificate, skill, knowledge or ability. The certificate is only required to sign off the annual "condition inspection" on the experimental aircraft. For the Kitfox in that ad to be sold as an ELSA, eligible to be signed off by a Repairman (maintenance), it either has to be 1. a used aircraft, grandfathered into ELSA status by registration and inspection as part of the transition program, or 2. a new ELSA kit which can be sold in various levels of completion up to 99.999%. There are very few "kit ELSA" being sold (if any) though some manufacturers are making plans to sell their aircraft as "kit ELSA." A certificated aircraft like an Ercoupe can just-about-never be changed to then kept as an experimental aircraft. The FAA doesn't want that to happen. So, there's no opportunity to do the same thing for a Coupe. Ed Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com/Ercoupe/index.htm East Peoria, Illinois ed -at- edburk???head.??com (remove the ? marks and change -at- to @)
