PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Rebuild with data plate?
View Single Post
Old 3rd Sep 2014, 14:51
  #6 (permalink)  
om15
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Dorset
Posts: 224
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
I have just seen this paragraph in an article on SUP (suspect unapproved parts), it doesn't fully answer your question, but is of interest,
According to some manufacturers, watching
for a counterfeit aircraft isn’t out of the question.
Aircraft OEMs have long opposed the
practice of building an aircraft around the
old data plate of an aircraft previously
destroyed. But unless the aircraft serial number
was actually reported to the FAA as
"Destroyed" knowing that an aircraft is original
can be difficult. So the practice continues,
despite the controversy and questionable
legality.
One aircraft manufacturer in particular
has gone to great lengths to label such
rebuilds as "counterfeit" aircraft – Textron’s
Bell Helicopter.
Bell feels so strongly about the potential
for people buying a helicopter rebuilt around
the data plate of a previously destroyed aircraft
that the company calls the entire
machine "counterfeit" if it was previously
"totaled" before being rebuilt using the original
data plate.
"If someone else rebuilds/remanufactures
an aircraft around the recovered aircraft
identification data plate, the aircraft is a
counterfeit and is not a Bell," the company
said on its website.
om15 is offline