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Old January 11th 04, 05:58 AM
Gerald Sylvester
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If you are not a US citizen you should check into some sort of corporation
or holding as you are not allowed to own a N-reg airplane not being a US
citizen. (disregard when a US citizen)


When I bought mine I got a copy of an FAA memo in the package from
Cessna which said in part that Corporations or LLCs formed/controlled
by non-US Citizens are also prohibited from owning aircraft, so this
wouldn't work.


I don't know about owning as I just got my PPL (on 12/17/03 ).
In the middle of my license I lived in Germany for 3 years. Basically
(if I had finished my license by then) I read it would take about
10-12 hours to get my German-JAA license. That would entitle me to
be PIC of a European (D-licensed (German)? not sure about other EU
countries) plane but otherwise I would only be able to fly US registered
planes. So *if* you are allowed to own a US registered plane,
you might not even be allowed to fly it!


Now having said that, I could swear I read that there are places
in the EU that you can rent N-registered planes....at US military
bases? maybe there is some planes that live in the US that
are registered to your country. Just a thought.

Gerald