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Old September 21st 04, 07:17 AM
Ron Wanttaja
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:25:58 -0400, "Morgans"
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"NW_PILOT" wrote

I did not say copy it I said use the fuselage as a template


Still their intellectual property.

of course it
would be changed a bit from the original design for 1 it would be composit
not aluminum and the models I listed were an example. I see people are
making piper supercub's dose piper have a problem with it?


Are they still making Piper Cubs, and trying to sell them?


Piper restarted Super Cub production in the late '80s...and, AFAIK, never
interfered with the Wag-Aero line other than to demand they quit using the
"Cuby" name. I doubt Boeing will sue Titan aircraft over their Mustang
replica.

I don't think Cessna will care if someone uses a Cessna fuselage as a mold
to built a one-of homebuilt. I think they'll *definitely* care if someone
enters production, claiming the plane is a replica 150....though Fisher
makes just such a claim for one of their planes. But the Fisher product
obviously isn't really look that much like a Cessna.

Keep in mind that a fiberglass mold of a Cessna fuselage would not, in
itself, be an airworthy structure. Any more than the Cessna would be
airworthy if the fuselage structure consisted of nothing more than the
external skin. That fiberglass shell will need the appropriate internal
structure. Bulkheads, etc., plus the hard points for wing, engine, tail,
and gear attachment.

Ron Wanttaja