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Old July 22nd 07, 05:43 PM posted to aus.aviation,rec.aviation.homebuilt
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Default Australia's oldest homebuilt aircraft flew again today

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:23:39 GMT, "WestCDA"
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Great to hear. Found this article on it ...

http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/Silver%20Centenary.htm

Were they finally able to register the aircraft?


yes. casa did it's traditional little wank act in initially refusing
to register the aircraft on some semantic technicality.
(god these people are perennially stupid....)

anyway that was amended/overruled and the aircraft is now VH-USC
it was originally painted with an incomplete G registration, then when
australia started issuing letters it was painted VH-U in anticipation
of two more letters, but never got any.
when the boy was looking for suitable registration letters it happened
that VH-USC was available.
U because it was the first registration prefix
and SC for Silver Centenary.
It is an experimental in the original builder's name.

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