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My understanding is that purchasing an experimental that's already built negates the advantage of allowing you to do your own maintenance/inspections.


If you're not the builder of your experimental aircraft, you can still do maintenance and mods. You just can't do the inspections, unless you're an A&P or took the appropriate training to get the repairman certificate for that aircraft.

GPB is an A&P. Shouldn't be a problem is his case.

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