Light Sport aircraft, what is a light sport aircraft?
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What is a
Special Light-Sport Aircraft in the United States?
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A special light-sport aircraft (S-LSA) is a factory-built, ready-to-fly
aircraft designed and constructed in accordance with the ASTM consensus
standards for light-sport aircraft (LSA).
Light Sport aircraft can be used for recreational flying, flight
instruction and they can be rented. |
They must be maintained and inspected by a certificated
repairman with a Light Sport Aircraft maintenance rating, a standard FAA aircraft
maintenance rating, known as an airframe and power plant (A&P) rating, or at
an FAA authorized repair station. Pilots are allowed to perform preventive maintenance
on S-LSA.
Private Light Sport Aircraft owners who have attended a 16-hour course to
obtain a light-sport aircraft repairman's certificate with an inspection
rating may change an S-LSA's airworthiness certificate to experimental
light-sport aircraft status (E-LSA) and are then able to perform the annual
condition inspection on their aircraft.
These AIRCRAFT are no longer able to be used for rental or commercial
flight training!Any foreign aircraft sold in the
U.S. as Special Light Sport Aircraft must have a bi-laterial agreement with
the FAA.
(Click here for more information on bilateral agreements)
Why Consensus Standards?
In 1995 the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act mandated that
federal agencies "shall use technical standards that are developed or
adopted by voluntary consensus standards bodies" as opposed to rules
established by the government. The United States Congress, in a 1996
Federal Law (Public Law 104), further stated, "Federal agencies shall
consult with private sector consensus bodies when such participation is in
the public interest...."
Thus, the FAA mandated in the sport pilot/light-sport aircraft rule,
that consensus standards be developed to govern the production of
light-sport aircraft (LSA). At the suggestion of EAA, the FAA engaged ASTM
International to assist the light-sport aircraft community in the
development of those standards. |
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For more information on standards for light-sport aircraft,
visit
ASTM - Technical Committees - "Light-Sport Aircraft"
(Committee F-37). Further information is available
in the following articles.
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