Flying machines registered as a boat. True. Another example of control freaking bureaucratic overreach in Oz.
Since at idle it sits on water ..ergo ..it’s a water borne ‘vessel’ So has to be so registered.
Ditto floatplanes and seaplanes.
In Canada and the US they laugh their heads off at this stupidity.
An aircraft on floats registered as an aircraft is exactly that.. it is not a tinny or speedboat. It’s an Aircraft.
Eff off I say to the idiot agency.