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Originally Posted by City Guy997S
Actually C is incorrect.......his license has lapsed and so as the plane registration.
Nothing good will come of this, plane will just look worse day after day and become an eyesore.
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His medical certificate isn't valid right now due to his heart condition, so he can't exercise the privileges of his student ticket. That's not the same as "his license has lapsed", his license is still valid.
As well, the plane registration is valid per FAA registry for N4646P through 7-31-2018. So that's good to go for a long time. The plane isn't airworthy right now, likely due to taking it apart to transport it to his house and reassemble to keep it all together. That work probably wasn't done to airworthy levels because it wasn't needed at this time. For all intents, it's highly likely that the plane just needs to be completely reassembled in an airworthy manner and get an annual inspection signed off. No point keeping it "in annual" now if he can't fly it because the calendar time runs out on the annual even if not flown; ie, he could be paying for an annual for a few years when he can't use the plane. Why pay that ongoing cost when he can do one annual on it when he's ready to fly again?
Makes sense to me that he'd want to cut his expenses as much as possible until such time as he's got his medical certificate back and then put the plane back into airworthy condition so he can complete his ticket. I'll bet he's got a lot of pride and happy thoughts about those times ahead and will be out there keeping the plane cleaned up and presentable.
As a pilot/airplane owner, RV, and multiple sailboat owner, I have no issue with keeping all at home. In fact, I've done this for years and never had a complaint from my boat and RV owning neighbors who store their toys at home, too. And I've never had an issue with my neighbors storing their toys at their homes; some have fleets of RV's, recreational trailers filled with ATV's, Snowmobiles, and similar equipment. Wishing I had the hangar that a neighbor of mine has at his house for his two airplanes and his lovely flat 1/2 mile runways from that hangar (mine's up and down a swale, and a bit bumpy). Just down the road from us is a fellow, retired from being a shop foreman in an aircraft restoration shop, who has a runway across his front lawn and a huge hangar where he does airplane restorations and sales. His brother lives in the little town adjacent and works on planes out of his oversize garage/machine shop. Not unusual to see a plane in his back yard, sometimes in pieces while he works on repairs or an annual inspection. He can't fly in/out of his place, he has to take planes apart and trailer them to his brother's hangar for reassembly and use that runway.
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