If an airplane is owned by a person who dies and the registration is changed
to the estate of the deceased based on a court order, the only way the
registration can be changed when the aircraft is sold is if the legal
executors of the estate sign the bill of sale -- all of them if there are
more than one. I know this first hand because a man who is being sentenced
this week in Arizona tried to steal an aircraft this way. He kept the money
and then tried to do a change of registration with only one of the estate
executors' signatures. Then he tried it again, this time signing it himself.
Both times the FAA refused to process the change of ownership. They most
certainly do care.

Juan

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
ups.com...
Under what situation will they refuse to handle the change of
registration? I've never heard of this before. I've bought airplanes
from people who have never been on the registration before, the FAA
doesn't care.

-Robert