registration fix..
First order of business... Congrates Rob. Well done. Enjoy.
I asked the FAA several times to amend the Registration to show its an RV-3A and even had the cooperation of the builder to say it should have been registered as an RV-3A, but so far I've not been able to get it done.
Would appreciate any comments from others about Cert versus Reg discrepancies as RV-3, 3A, and 3B.... and any positive or negative ramifications.
I had a similar issue, the Airworthiness Certificate was correct, the registration was not. The problem with my registration was humorous in retrospect. It showed up as "restricted" and "aerial surveying". ???
This is the text I used, and it probably went certified mail. I had tried via phone and email before but this got it done.
"I would greatly appreciate it if the classification and category were corrected in the FAA online registration lookup to agree with the Airworthiness Certificate, specifically "Experimental" and "Amateur built".
Included is a printout of the online record as of 23Nov2010. Corrections noted.
Please communicate the plans for correction or if no correction will be made, why such as position is being taken."
As far as 3, 3a, 3b..... Personally, I think there is very useful information communicated by "3b", but not so much on the 3 or 3a. Most non-3b buyers are going to look inside the wing and in the log books to see if it is type one or two spar, and what has or hasn't been done with the front and rear spars...so in my book, I don't so much care about the name as what it looks like and if it has been moded, was the mod tested and documented as such.