Advisory Circular Focuses On Maintaining 'vintage' Aircraft

[Roger]

This draft just published. http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/draft_do...aftAC23-27.pdf

Any Lawn Chair Lawyers out there who may want to take a crack at a hypothetical.

For example, If someone on our board finds a regular electric motor that would substitute for a cowl flap motor, can we as individuals buy it from the manufacturer and install it without a PMA, just a notation in our logbooks?

[skymstr02]

From the forward on the first page of the draft:

"This AC does not include specific approvals for installations. It provides guidelines to follow when collecting information for FAA approval".

Then it continues on Para 1(b):

"Based on the work done, the Aviation Safety Inspector(ASI) makes the final determination for any approvals."

[Skymaster337B]

At my last IA refesher course, the FAA guy said an aircraft owner is allowed to make his own parts because of a little known provision of FAR 21.303 para. a and b(2). The only stipulation is that the owner must make a log book entry stating the part meets the standards of an FAA/PMA approved part.

So have fun with that one.