AMS Flight Out of business

On Jun 8, 11:47*pm, Teme wrote:
There seems to be problem to contact the company nowadays, they do not
answer phone or reply mails. Does anyone know does this company still
exist?

If AMS is not out of business they should be. I purchased a new
DG-505 in 2006 from AMS. AMS supllied a certificate of airowrthiness
for export to the United States in the standard category. As it turns
out AMS was NOT certified to issue this document. As a result the FAA
revoked the glider's standard airworthiness certificate when this was
discovered in an FAA audit of AMS in 2008. Mr. Weber and Mr. Dirks at
the DG factory sent a DG/LBA (German FAA) inspector to the United
States (at my expense) to inspect the aircraft and issue a new more
bone fide standard airworthiness for export to the United States.
With this new documentation I argued the revocation in front of a
National Tranportation Safety Board judge in Federal Court. The FAA
prevailed on the grounds that the glider was fully consturcted in a
country, Slovenia, with which the United States has no bilateral
aviation agreements. As such the standard airowrthiness certificate
remained revoked. In the court proceedings, which are a matter of
public record, the FAA chief counsel elicited testimony from the FAA
expert witnesses indicating that the FAA will be revoking all the
standard airworthiness certificates of aircraft made by AMS because
they were made in the country of Slovenia without direct DG
supervision, a country with which the U.S. has no aviation export
agreements.

Let it be said that the aircraft supplied to me by AMS, my 5th glider,
is as flawless and as perfect a glider aircraft as I have seen or
owned. However, the paper work supplied by AMS is not worth the paper
it is written on and has created a nightmare. I would suggest that
other owners of AMS aircraft with standard airworthiness certificates
contact an aviation attorney because the FAA will be coming after your
glider next.

neilgreen