Is this a Bell issue only? What about the shennanigans that dear ol' Nick gets up to with the 76 and all its research variants for the Commanche? Did Sikorsky trash can all those aircraft? Did the USMC trash the 53 that got rolled on its way home from an airshow so many years ago? Remember Herr Zimmerman and the BO-105 performances he performed over the years? As I recall we have another poster who does similar things in an Apache.....do they trash everyone of the Apaches?
This comes from the Bell helicopters that would lead one to believe that you cannot rebuild a UH-1 and get a Standard Catagory certificate.....unless you are Bell and are building a 210 from the same surplus Army airframes! Just what is the difference if I do it in my shop....or Bell does it in theirs?