GA registered aircraft conversion to RAA register

[Guest turnbase]

Hi all,

 

Just had a thought. I'm wondering while I know that you can put a GA registered aircraft, if it qualifies, onto the RAA register and then perform the maintenance tasks as per requirements. My question is that subsequently further down the track would you be able to put the same aircraft back on the GA register? In my limited knowledge if you had the aircraft bought back to specifications by a LAME then it could be done. Has anyone performed such a feet and what pitfalls did they find?

 

 

[Guest turnbase]

The reason why to be able to go back and forth would be resale value of the aircraft and possibly wanting to fly NVFR in the future.

 

 

[old man emu]

In my limited knowledge if you had the aircraft bought back to specifications by a LAME then it could be done. Has anyone performed such a feet and what pitfalls did they find?

I think that you had the correct answer yourself. To get the aircraft back on the GA register it needs a Certificate of Airworthiness (which would involve a Weight and Balance certification) and a Maintenance Release. You would also need the GA logbooks from its previous registration, and all the RAA maintenance records. Obtaining the C of A would require confirmation that all Airworthiness Directives had been complied with.

 

All things can be done, provided that you are prepared to fork out the money to get the jobs done. The question boils down to: "Is it economically feasible to do it?" You must consider which side of the equation has the most dollars:

 

Price of Airplane + Cost of C of A etc Sale Price of Airplane

 

OME

 

 

[Guest turnbase]

Thanks OME, just wanted to confirm I was on the money.

 

 

[facthunter]

To the best of my recollection. any move from VH to RAAus was meant to be a one way trip. This might have been put out to deter people from doing it. The problem being the time under RAAus maintenance regime. If your plane was serviced as if it was still VH can't see a problem. I can see the point in that if the servicing was done by someone who didn't do it properly how much inspecting would cover the possible errors?. Missing an inspection would be less of a problem than having someone carry out a process that was incorrectly done., and the possible damage/ rectification involved Nev