Advantages of N-Registration?
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Advantages of N-Registration?
Wise ones,
there are a few private aircraft around with US registration, owned and/or operated by Australian persons or entities. Boyd Munro's Panther Navajos N7XB and N77XB spring to mind, as does the Clamback & Hennessy/Perry-Oakden King Air 200 that replaced VH-MYO.
For what reason do these aircraft retain their US registration?
there are a few private aircraft around with US registration, owned and/or operated by Australian persons or entities. Boyd Munro's Panther Navajos N7XB and N77XB spring to mind, as does the Clamback & Hennessy/Perry-Oakden King Air 200 that replaced VH-MYO.
For what reason do these aircraft retain their US registration?
Can't answer that but on a side note I know a gentleman aircraft salesperson / dealer that always flies N rego aircraft with customers etc on his Aus PPL as he believes it negates the requirements for a CPL for the type of flying that he does. Perhaps it's for a *similar* reason.
Surely the aircraft would have to be owned by an American or have been physically located and registered there at some time...
Surely the aircraft would have to be owned by an American or have been physically located and registered there at some time...
Hmmm, the mind is a bit fuzzy on this, however I believe at one stage QF threatened to re-register all their 747s as "Ns" as CASA regulations imposed a fuel penalty on them while US based operators were not required to carry extra fuel across the Pacific, I think CASA then changed their rules...?! 
I think it is the whole, "you can fly an x registered aircraft to x's home country's regulations in country y", if you follow.
I think it is the whole, "you can fly an x registered aircraft to x's home country's regulations in country y", if you follow.
The owners evidently prefer to avoid the rules that apply to Australian aircraft and comply with those that apply to N registered aircraft.
I've been saying this to RHS for sometime. If he doesn't like the 'regulatory tariff' that he says is imposed by Australia's rules, all he has to do is shift the aircraft to the 'N' register. The aircraft can be operated in Australia privately and indefinitely, without any approval or other regulatory silliness.
I've been saying this to RHS for sometime. If he doesn't like the 'regulatory tariff' that he says is imposed by Australia's rules, all he has to do is shift the aircraft to the 'N' register. The aircraft can be operated in Australia privately and indefinitely, without any approval or other regulatory silliness.
Wasn't there a turbine Allsion 210 also N registered for a while before its untimely end? I seem to remember that this couldn't be placed on the CASA register?
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There are lots of operational advantages having a US licence and flying an N registered aircraft in Australia and New Zealand
Except when the aircraft needs an unsheduled fix...
Not too many FAA mechanics in Oz.
Except when the aircraft needs an unsheduled fix...
Not too many FAA mechanics in Oz.
