Great news in Canadian AB regs

[Wayne G. O'Shea]

We can now build them at any gross weight (there's no more 5000 lb limit)
and for all you Moose guys you can now register 6 seats just like the USA
lads could all along !! There is no longer a 4 seat limit in Canada.... if
you wanna build an AB 757.. have at her.

Something RAA has been working on for almost 3 years now and fighting for
even ground.... ever since I helped lite the flame under Gary's ass over
this.... TC was exempting a US company for seats and gross weight, with
their promise of jobs in Alberta.. so the fight was on for a fair playing
ground and we now have it.

Wayne

NO LIMIT TO SEATING AND GROSS WEIGHT IN THE A-B CATEGORY!

RAA Members,
In Spring 2006 while RAA was attending the Transport Canada meetings to
deal with Light Sport and other categories, Transport's reps let it be known
that by using the exemption process they proposed to allow one US company to
register their seven seat, 7500 pound planes in the Amateur Built category.
The American manufacturer had been romancing Alberta with promises of a
composites certification facility and a factory to build these aircraft, all
of which later proved to be vapourware. In exchange he was being allowed to
register seven seat planes at a gross weight approaching 8000 pounds, while
Canadian manufacturers would still be limited to four seats and 5000 pounds
because no other manufacturers were to be allowed the use of the exemption.

It seemed highly unfair that an import should be granted these marketing
privileges, yet that Canadian manufacturers like Murphy, Dream, Bushcaddy,
and Zenith should be denied the same privileges, so RAA went into action to
change the situation. The Murphy Moose, with its capacity for six seats
already in use in the States, would be the immediate beneficiary of an
expansion of such privileges. RAA began a series of phone and email
exchanges with manufacturers and Transport to bring this about.

This week the efforts have borne fruit, and our regulations have now been
amended to remove the restrictions on gross weight and the number of seats
in Canadian Amateur Built aircraft. Should you wish to build a replica of
the B-36 there is now nothing preventing you, except perhaps that you might
singlehandedly create an aluminum shortage. It is more likely that builders
of four seat aircraft might wish to have a full rear bench seat with seat
belts for three. It will still be necessary for the builder to use
reasonable figures for gross weight and for the plane to remain within
acceptable CG limits at all loadings. We are not getting an exemption from
physics here, just from regulatory restrictions.






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