On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:41:02 -0800 (PST), quietguy
wrote:

On Nov 16, 2:59 pm, IO540 wrote:

Wasn't that fee to hold an "N" number one of the ones they are going
to raise up quite a bit with the new registration fees?

It was part of the FAA's reauthorization/restructuring proposal, which
got shot down by Congress this fall:

http://www.aopa.org/pilot/features/2007/feat0705.html

Look about two-thirds of the way through the AOPA article (from May
2007) and you'll see the proposals: $80 to register a 'special' N-
number (i.e., one not assigned at random) and $50 to renew it. Shot
down with all the rest -- but soaking us for 'vanity plates' is
clearly on their minds at the FAA. It's unclear from the AOPA's
wording but it looks as if the FAA wanted to hit us up for these fees
every year for existing aircraft as well as for reserved N-numbers.

Every year? that would be awful, and just put another nail in the
coffin for GA. The FAA is persistant, that's for sure. The B-crats
just can't get the thought from their mind that anyone who owns an
aircarft is rich, and is a prime target for taxes for them to waste on
many of their useless programs.