Pietenpol-List: first flights
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2002 8:04 am
Original Posted By: "Christian Bobka"
You folks who are nearing completion and who are EAA members will surely want to immortalize your Piets by getting the centennial data plate that EAA is offering to anyone who completes their homebuilt between Dec. 17, 2002 and Dec. 31, 2003. This commemorates the 100th anniversary of powered flight (Dec. 17, 1903). There is info on the EAA website, at http://www.eaa.org/communications/eaane ... kage.htmlI asked the EAA rep about the requirements since it says "any homebuilt aircraft completed..." but then uses the registration date as the standard. I pointed out that many builders get the registration well before completing their aircraft (like myself), and he said that the registration isn't the only thing they will look at. It's mostly on the honor system and based on the builder providing sufficient documentation to the effect that the plane was completed in that timeframe. They didn't define "completed" as finished and flown, or finished and getting airworthiness, or just what. However, the EAA rep did say that it wasn't tied to getting your airworthiness because he presumed that you would have the centennial data plate affixed to the aircraft prior to airworthiness inspection (sorry, Corky and maybe Walt).DJ and some of the rest of you, here's your goal for completing your Piets in the next 12 months-!Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net________________________________________________________________________________
You folks who are nearing completion and who are EAA members will surely want to immortalize your Piets by getting the centennial data plate that EAA is offering to anyone who completes their homebuilt between Dec. 17, 2002 and Dec. 31, 2003. This commemorates the 100th anniversary of powered flight (Dec. 17, 1903). There is info on the EAA website, at http://www.eaa.org/communications/eaane ... kage.htmlI asked the EAA rep about the requirements since it says "any homebuilt aircraft completed..." but then uses the registration date as the standard. I pointed out that many builders get the registration well before completing their aircraft (like myself), and he said that the registration isn't the only thing they will look at. It's mostly on the honor system and based on the builder providing sufficient documentation to the effect that the plane was completed in that timeframe. They didn't define "completed" as finished and flown, or finished and getting airworthiness, or just what. However, the EAA rep did say that it wasn't tied to getting your airworthiness because he presumed that you would have the centennial data plate affixed to the aircraft prior to airworthiness inspection (sorry, Corky and maybe Walt).DJ and some of the rest of you, here's your goal for completing your Piets in the next 12 months-!Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net________________________________________________________________________________