vlittle
Well Known Member
A heads up to anyone building an aircraft in Canada:
The MD-RA has been recommending that you register your new-built airplane 6 months ahead of when you expect to apply for flight authority. This is because Transport Canada is extremely slow in issuing CofRs.
When you do so, it will trigger a bill from Nav Canada to pay your annual air navigation service fee (currently around $92). You need to call Nav Canada's customer service to have this reversed, if the aircraft is not in service. They will email you a form.
Technically, this so called 'negative option billing' is illegal in Canada, but this is not a big issue.
Nav Canada does not look at Transport Canada's database to review if a flight authority has been issued to a registered aircraft, they just send you the bill. Sigh.
The MD-RA has been recommending that you register your new-built airplane 6 months ahead of when you expect to apply for flight authority. This is because Transport Canada is extremely slow in issuing CofRs.
When you do so, it will trigger a bill from Nav Canada to pay your annual air navigation service fee (currently around $92). You need to call Nav Canada's customer service to have this reversed, if the aircraft is not in service. They will email you a form.
Technically, this so called 'negative option billing' is illegal in Canada, but this is not a big issue.
Nav Canada does not look at Transport Canada's database to review if a flight authority has been issued to a registered aircraft, they just send you the bill. Sigh.
