Dan asked (and I may have missed the reply to, since Hotmail has been giving
me fits, as Mark L. can attest)-
>Someone put out on the Teenie forum that if your N number was NX something,
>then you did not have to put the EXPERIMENTAL inside the cockpit.
>Does anyone know if this is true?
I posted information here on this topic in Feb, 2002, where I mentioned that
in 2007 the KR design would be 30 years old and builders would be eligible
to apply the "NX" registration prefix in lieu of a passenger warning
placard. Here's a snip from my post, as well as the text of the applicable
FAR:
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'Scuse my slip; it's FAR 45.22(b). It doesn't say you can prefix the
registration number with an "X"... it always has to start with an "N" but
under the provisions of this FAR it can be "NX..." and the large passenger
notification "EXPERIMENTAL" at the entry to the cockpit can be dispensed
with. Here's the text of the FAR, from the EAA Homebuilders' website:
(b) A small U.S.-registered aircraft built at least 30 years ago or a
U.S.-registered aircraft for which an experimental certificate has been
issued under § 21.191(d) or 21.191(g) for operation as an exhibition
aircraft or as an amateur built aircraft and which has the same external
configuration as an aircraft built at least 30 years ago may be operated
without displaying marks in accordance with §§ 45.21 and 45.23 through 45.33
if:
(1) It displays in accordance with § 45.21(c) marks at least 2 inches high
on each side of the fuselage or vertical tail surface consisting of the
Roman capital letter "N" followed by:
(i) The U.S. registration number of the aircraft; or
(ii) The symbol appropriate to the airworthiness certificate of the aircraft
("C", standard; "R", restricted; "L", limited; or "X", experimental)
followed by the U.S. registration number of the aircraft; and
(2) It displays no other mark that begins with the letter "N" anywhere on
the aircraft, unless it is the same mark that is displayed under paragraph
(b)(1) of this section.
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Oscar Zuniga
San Antonio, TX
mailto: [email protected]
website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
