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IOM register and FAA STCs

Hello all,

planning to use the IOM register for a -soon to be imported from the
USA- aircraft;

are the FAA STCs, sic et simpliciter, accepted, or I have to follow the
grandfathered way for each and every piece of installed equipment?

Did my home work, but nothing found on previous posts, on the ANO 2007 and
on the Amdt 2008; the Registry Publication 5 show this:

“AMC 8 (a)

... Modification and repair data provided by the Type Certificate
Holder,Supplemental Type Certificate Holder or Design organisation and
approved under the regulations of the state of design, will be acceptable without
further showing.

Modification and repair data approved in accordance with the regulations of the
state of design of the product (Aircraft, Engine or Propeller) will be acceptable.
Modification and repair data approved in accordance with EASA regulations will
be acceptable. This includes countries with which bilateral agreements for such
activities exist with EASA (e.g. USA, Canada, Brazil, Switzerland) ...”

being aware that acceptable is slightly different from accepted, and before
bothering the nice gents at aircraft_gov.im, can someone enlighten me,
showing me the thread I ,clearly, grossly missed or point me in some direction?

thanks
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I know several IOM-based owners and the M register accepts maintenance to Part 91 which means FAA STCs are usable as usual on an N-reg.

However, the situation has been rather fluid and I would check with their director of aviation directly.

Also, you need to be resident to do it, and even then (I gather from a resident pilot who I know well) sub-5.7T aircraft are discouraged. The various GA types which ended up on the M-reg did so in the early days of the registry.

The IOM registry validates FAA licenses/ratings into IOM ones, but only for a specific aircraft tail number. So you can fly your M-reg plane on an FAA PPL/IR etc, but cannot fly another M-reg.

The ability to keep the M-reg when you sell the plane has also varied somewhat.

You don't need to be resident, but UK residents would find it difficult. Certainly possible for other crown dependency residents (Jersey/Guernsey) to get M-reg. A colleague of mine in Jersey has an Cirrus on it and uses FAA licensing (IR) and maintenance.

Give Brian Johnson, the Director of the IoM CAA a call - (0) 1624 682358

I recently had a query for a client wanting to put a Global Challenger on the IoM register, telephoned the IoM CAA and was put through to the Director. Very friendly and extremely helpful. Try doing that with the UK CAA:=

Thank you all for your time, and just for the records, to help someone else in a
future search

IO540:
as I read on their web, <5.7T only allowed for resident, but nonetheless allowed;
as for the ability to keep your M-reg, I've seen you're allowed to (pay to) reserve
a reg, so I suppose, in some way, you can do that, but still not there yet :)

derekf:
it seems ANO2007-3(3)(b) allow "...Commonwealth citizens...", and so UK residents
I think, "...to hold a legal or beneficial interest by way of ownership in an aircraft
registered in the Isle of Man...";
not much concerned anyway, being myself a 3(3)(c)

Legalapproach:
I'll check with them, even if I'm talking about a SEP and not a Challenger;
and I've read many times they are really friendly and helpful

thank you all again
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