Hi Paul!
Thank you so much for your great effort enabling us to share such valuable information in the rotary aviation.
Im from Namibia, and have a slightly damaged (A23-24) Beech Musketeer which I would like to repair, where I would like to fit a 13B rotary engine with an IVO prop and doing minor changes/improvements elsewhere. My problem now is of rules and regulation (or/and politics) matter where they say that I can't do such a job on a type-rated plane without getting the permission from the Beechcraft Company to put this aircraft in a non-type-certified category or in an experimental category.
In South Africa, Australia, USA, etc there are such registered, flying automotive conversions. My question is: can you please inform me with the rules (maybe copies from original regulations) of how the FAA or ICAO permits such projects which I can present to the local authorities on how to get my project going again? And if I need to approach the Beech Corporation for that matter, how should I present this request inspiringly to them?
Many thanks in advance!
Best of wishes and kind regards,
Werner Raupert.
Windhoek, Namibia

Talking to Beech will not help.

The FAA will allow that in the states if you can convince them you are developing a rotary
engine for ultimate certification. You must convince them that you will ultimately
manufacturer this engine. That is what Mistral did.

Paul Lamar

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