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Old September 2nd 06, 07:49 PM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt
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Ernest Christley wrote:
wrote:

A portable trailer-mounted generator has an engine, a propulsion
system for electrons. Would he have to put it on a second trailer
to tow it in Connecticut? Or would the fact that the engine doesn't
drive the wheels be what matters?

I think maybe he should have talked to more than one DOT guy,
maybe politely asked to talk to a supervisor.


I wasn't there, and they didn't call to ask for my input 8*)


Nor mine...


but...

I just looked up the old newsletter article. Here it is, straight from
the builders's mouth. Make of it what you will.


Thanks for checking.


"...
It seems that in order to qualify, as a trailer, the vehicle cannot have
its own motive power, and since he considered the engine and propeller
motive power he could not allow it. Secondly the statutes specifically
prohibit the DMV from registering aircraft as motor vehicles. So that
was it. He said that if I wanted to tow it on the road I would have to
put it on a trailer. I was, to say the least, very DISSAPOINTED.


Assuming that the Ct DMV defines a trailer as a motor vehicle, then
yes, he was clearly SOL as there was a rule that expressly
prohibitted licensing an airplane as a trailer. The first rule had
some
wiggle room, the second did not. The authorities had considered
exactly that situation and decided to prohibit it.

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