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03-02-2016, 12:52 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Frederick, MD
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FAA issues UNAPPROVED PARTS NOTIFICATION on Ameri-King products
The FAA issued a SAFO today for all Ameri-King products. The link follows, but essentially they lost their TSO on everything.
http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/safety/p...13NM460018.pdf
With respect to encoders and ELT's, items that have to be TSO approved, units produced after a certain date are not TSO approved and the FAA is investigating units previously produced.
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03-02-2016, 01:04 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Garden City, Tx
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Oops - that has the potential to get very ugly, very quickly.
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N16GN flying 700 hrs and counting; IO360, SDS, WWRV200, Dynon HDX, 430W
Built an off-plan RV9A with too much fuel and too much HP. Should drop dead any minute now. 
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03-02-2016, 01:14 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Wow, that is about as bad as it can get for them. Anyone know the backstory? Outsourcing mfg? Must be systemic if they whacked the whole product catalog.
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RV-6A. Mattituck TMX O-360, FP, GRT Sport EFIS, L3 Lynx NGT-9000
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03-02-2016, 01:38 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Just Minutes from KBVI!
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Wow. Not just bad for Ameri-King but for anyone who has any of the listed items installed, too.
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03-02-2016, 01:42 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Garden City, Tx
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Gotta be an interesting backstory here, I can just see an exec with the company telling a lifetime bureaucrat "Yeah? Whatcha gonna do about it?" and then finding out the hard way.
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Greg Niehues - SEL, IFR, Repairman Cert.
Garden City, TX VAF 2020 dues paid
N16GN flying 700 hrs and counting; IO360, SDS, WWRV200, Dynon HDX, 430W
Built an off-plan RV9A with too much fuel and too much HP. Should drop dead any minute now.
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03-02-2016, 07:12 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Flower Mound, TX
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OK,
I'll be the dummy in the crowd brave enough to ask the question.
The FAA recommends that "these parts and articles not be sold or distributed for installation on any type-certificated product."
In the interest of understanding the semantics as they apply to our experimental/amateur-built aircraft (because I foul it up every time), are our homebuilt RVs "type-certificated products." If so, then do I need to replace my Ameri-King ELT?
Mel, please help me get it right.
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03-02-2016, 07:58 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Don't think so. Only if the product was manufactured after the cease-and-desist order date in the notice. That's how I read it.
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Venice, FL
RV-6A. Mattituck TMX O-360, FP, GRT Sport EFIS, L3 Lynx NGT-9000
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03-02-2016, 08:13 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Meridian ID, Aspen CO, Okemos MI
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They are not approved for a reason. I could see the FAA being small and making an example out of not having the paperwork in order, but their letter is very strong against them. I would guess they have cause.
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Williamston MI
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03-02-2016, 08:17 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: South
Posts: 526
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Wow!
I just ordered a 450 from spruce and installed it in a friends plane to replace the older one that went TU. ... On the 26th of February . Just a few days before ordering I called ameriking about repairing the old one and he said just send him 189.00 and he would send me a new one. Ordered from ACS instead seeing I needed other things. Ameriking made NO mention of anything of any discrepancy. Business as usual.. Now what to do?
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03-02-2016, 08:27 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: KSGJ / TJBQ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by scrollF4
OK,
I'll be the dummy in the crowd brave enough to ask the question.
The FAA recommends that "these parts and articles not be sold or distributed for installation on any type-certificated product."
In the interest of understanding the semantics as they apply to our experimental/amateur-built aircraft (because I foul it up every time), are our homebuilt RVs "type-certificated products." If so, then do I need to replace my Ameri-King ELT?
Mel, please help me get it right.
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Great question. IMHO if the requirement is the equipment must "meet the TSO standard" and the FAA decided they do not, then we can't use them. However if there is no "meet the TSO standard" requirement for the equipment then we as experimental can use them since we are not type certified aircraft.
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