Light Sport Registration

Registration/ airworthiness…Light Sport .
FAA Form 8050-88 Affidavit of Ownership states “Does Not Include light Sport “
The EAA step by step book / guide says Do Not Check “Light Sport Box” on the Application for Airworthiness Certification (form 8130-6 ) .
This leaves me a little confused…. Do you need to register a plane as light sport or if it meets the criteria it’s considered light sport regardless of how it’s registered?

g zero said:

Registration/ airworthiness…Light Sport .
FAA Form 8050-88 Affidavit of Ownership states “Does Not Include light Sport “
The EAA step by step book / guide says Do Not Check “Light Sport Box” on the Application for Airworthiness Certification (form 8130-6 ) .
This leaves me a little confused…. Do you need to register a plane as light sport or if it meets the criteria it’s considered light sport regardless of how it’s registered?

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The "Light Sport" category is for the factory-built light-sport aircraft (which we commonly refer to as "Special LSA" or "SLSA"). If you are building an amateur-built aircraft, or an experimental light-sport aircraft (ELSA) you are not in the "light-sport" category even if the aircraft meets the definition of LSA.

For registration purposes, any Van's kit would not be listed as "light-sport". So the -88 form would not have anything to do with Light -Sport.

For certification purposes, you would NOT check light-sport on the -6 form, as this is the category for factory-built LSA. You would check "Experimental" (block II number 4) and then either "Amateur-built" (Block 4-2) or "Operating light sport (block 4-8) and "Operating light-sport kit built" (Block 4-8B).

Clear as mud, right??

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Thanks for the answer Joe , much appreciated