Sport Pilot Airplanes - Homebuilt?

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 16:47:07 -0700, "Rich S."
wrote:

Anybody else notice the complete absence of the words "Homebuilt" in the
latest article about Sport Pilot on the EAA website
http://www.airventure.org/2003/friaug1/sport_pilot.html.

I have to wonder if the only "approved" airplanes will be commercially
manufactured ones.

As I recall I recently read in one of the aviation mags that *only*
factory built airplanes would qualify. Even if you had a kit version
of a manufactured airplane it wouldn't qualify.

The problem is I don't remember which mag other than it wasn't Sport
Aviation. "I think" it may have been either the AOPA Journal, or
Flying and "I think" it was within the last three months.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

Rich S.

"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 16:47:07 -0700, "Rich S."
wrote:

Anybody else notice the complete absence of the words "Homebuilt" in the
latest article about Sport Pilot on the EAA website
http://www.airventure.org/2003/friaug1/sport_pilot.html.

I have to wonder if the only "approved" airplanes will be commercially
manufactured ones.

As I recall I recently read in one of the aviation mags that *only*
factory built airplanes would qualify. Even if you had a kit version
of a manufactured airplane it wouldn't qualify.

The problem is I don't remember which mag other than it wasn't Sport
Aviation. "I think" it may have been either the AOPA Journal, or
Flying and "I think" it was within the last three months.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

Rich S.


Subcommittee Chairman Tom Peghiny added, "All of us on the ASTM F-37.20
airplane subcommittee are pleased with the completion of the Standard
Practice for Quality Assurance in the Manufacture of Light-Sport Airplanes.
This is an important first step. The industry working with the FAA has shown
that the ASTM process works for us and produces appropriate standards
quickly." Peghiny is president of Flightstar Aircraft.
This was cut and pasted off the EAA web site. I know Tom and believe me he
is not going to set a standard that will rule out his own kit planes.