Recent content by tintin6680

Verbal agreement has been made. Papers will be signed in a couple of weeks.

Update to bring this thread to a close - I had someone much smarter than me come look at the airplane and they found the trim panel with the data plate on it buried under junk in the baggage compartment so that major issue has been resolved. I never expected this as an outcome because I was told...

I will be keeping the T-Craft as my personal plane for quite a while. Of the data plate approvals you pursued and had success with, how many more, as a ratio, didn't work out? Your words do offer some encouragement to my situation so I will keep grinding ahead on this. Many thanks!

I've mostly heard that the FAA needs to grant their blessing for a replacement plate, and that authorization could be taken to any number of businesses that can make a new one. I have also read the horror stories about the FAA arguing that actually legitimate, original data plates were bogus so...

Unfortunately that won’t help. I’m dealing with a Taylorcraft. Meant to throw that in the last reply.

This aircraft has the actual serial number stamped on the frame. It also had a landing gear repair many years ago documented on (2) 337s so that could be useful as you described. It's a strange backstory and I know different pieces of it but as far as I can take my research I cannot find any...

Appreciate all the responses so far. We are talking about the original airframe data plate not that stupid DEA tag. I edited this in the first post but to clarify, the TC is held by an LLC but they have no physical footprint anymore and even people who had connections and were in contact with...

Hello all, I am going to keep this as anonymous as I can to protect the involved parties. Looking at purchasing a post war tube and fabric plane that is in decent shape but needs a lot of overall work. It was last registered for flight 4 decades ago and was de assigned due to expiration in 2013...