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


Thanks a lot Paul for your immediate reply! Seems there is little hope for such kind of project...


Kind regards,
Werner Raupert

Another approach is take the wings off and replace them with carbon fiber wings. It then becomes an
experimental aircraft and rotaries are legal.

Paul Lamar


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