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What is a Special Light-Sport Aircraft in the United States? | Chat on line with
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Technical Support | | | A special light-sport aircraft (S-LSA) is a factory-built, ready-to-fly aircraft designed and constructed in accordance with the ASTM consensus standards for light-sport aircraft (LSA).
Light Sport aircraft can be used for recreational flying, flight instruction and they can be rented. | They must be maintained and inspected by a certificated repairman with a Light Sport Aircraft maintenance rating, a standard FAA aircraft maintenance rating, known as an airframe and power plant (A&P) rating, or at an FAA authorized repair station. Pilots are allowed to perform preventive maintenance on S-LSA.
Private Light Sport Aircraft owners who have attended a 16-hour course to obtain a light-sport aircraft repairman's certificate with an inspection rating may change an S-LSA's airworthiness certificate to experimental light-sport aircraft status (E-LSA) and are then able to perform the annual condition inspection on their aircraft.
These AIRCRAFT are no longer able to be used for rental or commercial flight training!Any foreign aircraft sold in the U.S. as Special Light Sport Aircraft must have a bi-laterial agreement with the FAA.
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Why Consensus Standards?
In 1995 the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act mandated that federal agencies "shall use technical standards that are developed or adopted by voluntary consensus standards bodies" as opposed to rules established by the government. The United States Congress, in a 1996 Federal Law (Public Law 104), further stated, "Federal agencies shall consult with private sector consensus bodies when such participation is in the public interest...."
Thus, the FAA mandated in the sport pilot/light-sport aircraft rule, that consensus standards be developed to govern the production of light-sport aircraft (LSA). At the suggestion of EAA, the FAA engaged ASTM International to assist the light-sport aircraft community in the development of those standards. | | For more information on standards for light-sport aircraft, visit ASTM - Technical Committees - "Light-Sport Aircraft" (Committee F-37). Further information is available in the following articles. | | | |
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