thanks for that great information, the aircraft is new and currently either has pp, or pt registration from brazil. just looking into FATA now, it looks like they are still being issued to expats until 2010. Do you know if that's a very long process, and if i would still be able to attain one now. the aircraft is supossed to be picked up in a months time, and i'm really starting to begin none of this is going to just work out...