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



Why not register it in South Africa. all you need is a SA address.
Then you 'ferry' it back and forth..

Russ Ward


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