"Jim Phoenix" wrote in message
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(Finbar) wrote in message

Also, the Airworthiness Certificate issued for the vehicle I regularly
fly does not anywhere describe it as a Glider, or as anything else.
There isn't even a box on the certificate where one would enter that
kind of information.

Mine does. My glider (one of my gliders) has a Special Airworthiness
Certificate (U.S. of A.) and has the word Glider in parentheses
following the word Experimental in the Category/Designation block.
This is in accordance with the (U. S. of A) FAA Order 8130.2E, Section
6, paragraph 121.d

I have been watching this thread for a while. So I thought I should take a
look at the US airworthiness certificate of my HP-14.

It is a "Special Airworthiness Certificate issued in 1987 and Block A reads:
"CATEGORY/PURPOSE Experimental"
"PURPOSE Operating Amateur-Built Aircraft (Glider)

A typewriter was used to enter the data on the certificate. Maybe the
entries are not as standardized as we would assume.

Wayne
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder