This one made me think. I haven't read the regs on this. Factory built LSA meet certain engineering standards, experimentals are free of those standards (though not free of a DAR's scrutiny).
In that case If you gain a certification to work on LSA's, your cert need only cover aircraft and their parts that meet that LSA engineering standards set, not the wide open fields of experimentals. I'd guess no, for experimentals an LSA maintenance cert would not prepare one for the wild wide world of experimentals. You'd need more experience and education for that. You'd want an AP for that, or the actual guy who built the thing. Experimentals are experimentals because they exist, often, to push outside 'normal' engineering limits. Cheers! Anyone wanna quote the applicable regs? On Fri, Jul 3, 2026, 08:18 Kayak via KRnet <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Oscar. Boils me down to one question: > > If I buy a EAB aircraft that I didnt build (like a KR2) and get my LSRI-A > cert, can I do my own annual condition inspections? > > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 1:10 AM Oscar Zuniga via KRnet < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Howdy, Netters; >> >> >> >> Since the list is pretty quiet, I’m going to take up some bandwidth in >> order to add a bit of clarification and detail to what John posted about >> the forum presentation on recent changes to the repairman certification >> under MOSAIC and the ratings and categories that fall under that >> certification. >> >> >> >> First of all, complete explanatory information on this subject is in a >> 67-page FAA document, Advisory Circular 65-32B. You can do a lot of >> snooping around on the internet for a deeper dive into other aspects of >> this, but for our purposes, this AC says it all and then some. In fact, >> only about half the pages in the AC apply to KRs and to us as KR owners, >> pilots, and builders. Here’s a link: AC 65-32B >> <https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_65-32B.pdf> >> . If the link doesn’t make it through our filter, it’s >> https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_65-32B.pdf >> . Accept no substitutes (such as AC 65-32A, which has been superseded). >> >> >> >> Next, recognize that there are various types of aircraft covered under >> the rules and described in the AC, but since the Gathering is KR-specific, >> the forum will be specific to experimental, amateur-built (E-AB) aircraft >> that meet the definition of a Light Sport Aircraft as stipulated in the >> modernized “light-sport category” under Part 22. This new category >> definition is set to go into force this July 24, 2026 and it eliminates the >> strict 1,320-pound weight limit formerly imposed on LSA and other things >> that will broaden the definition. Interestingly though, the definition >> excludes rockets as an acceptable powerplant for LSAs. Sorry, guys ;o) >> >> >> >> We will not discuss balloons, weight-shift trikes, gliders, rotorcraft, >> or other categories and classes of aircraft that are also now able to be >> considered for repairman certification under MOSAIC. We won’t discuss >> S-LSA aircraft, which are factory-built. We won’t discuss certificated >> aircraft like Cessnas and Pipers, some of which will meet the new >> light-sport category description. We will not discuss the “maintenance” >> rating that is available to certified LSA repairmen under MOSAIC since >> we’ll be focusing on KRs as personally-owned E-AB aircraft that we can >> maintain ourselves anyway. The rating we will discuss is “inspection”, >> which will allow us to perform the condition inspections on our own KRs and >> make logbook entries of this type: >> >> + + + + >> >> July 4,2026 TT250.0 >> >> I certify that this aircraft has been inspected on [date] in accordance >> with the scope and detail of 14 CFR Part 43 Appendix D, and was found to be >> in a condition for safe operation. {signed} K.R. Netter, LSRI-A #1234567 >> >> +++++ >> >> >> >> We /may/ discuss the possibility of there now being a lower bar for >> someone to jump over to become a KR owner and pilot under these rule >> changes since a new entry path exists for a person with Sport Pilot and >> LSRI-A certificates and ratings to go out and buy a complete and flying KR >> and then operate, maintain, and inspect it without an airman medical of any >> class, with only 20 hours of flight experience, without having built any >> part of the airplane at all, and without an A&P certificate. However, as >> with all things: “just because you /can/ do it doesn’t mean you /should/!” >> We may take that discussion outdoors with some refreshments though. >> >> >> >> Oscar Zuniga >> >> Medford, OR >> >> KR 1.5 N335KC “Sunbeam”, in restoration >> -- >> KRnet mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet >> > -- > KRnet mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet >
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