Converting Trainer

Converting your Trainer to Unlimited Status

If you have an Experimental Light-Sport Aircraft with the rights to use for "training for hire" until January 31, 2010, then your Airworthiness Certificate (A/W) has an expiry for that date.

Here is what you must do before that date:

1) Call your local Flight Standards District Office (FSDO) and make an appointment to come in and get new A/W and Operating Limitations. (You can find your FSDO at the FAA website www.faa.gov search in the FSDO locator.)

2) Bring in your:

a. Photo ID

b. Airworthiness Certificate (This is the pink card).

c. Operating Limitations (These are sheets associated with your A/W that show what you can do with your aircraft.

d. Registration (This is the white card from the FAA that presented your official N number for the aircraft)

e. Airframe maintenance log and any other log such as engine or propeller you may have. (These logs could be in one of many different styles but usually are simple paper pamphlets with the written record of maintenance of the aircraft.)

f. An application 8130-6 filled out like the enclosed sample with your data. (Note the check marks.) The form can be obtained at www.faa.gov .

3) The FSDO are preparing for you and will return your new paperwork that removes the rights to "instruct for hire" and changes the expiry to "unlimited".

Either the owner of the plane must make the changes or they may provide a notarized authorization for another individual to sign their aircraft paperwork.

The FAA has already announced that there is "no basis for re-issuance" for the aircraft that do not complete this action by January 31, 2010. (See letter from Frank Paskiewicz at www.aerosports.org.)

Enclosed sample of 8130-6