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I asked this in another thread where it could have easily been overlooked.

I am curious to know if anybody here has any experience with purchasing an airplane in Canada and registering it in the United States? I am curious to what the process involves.

Thanks,

Bill
Grants Pass, Oregon

Thanks Tom. This makes it sound way to simple. So I am curious if anybody here has actually re-registered a Canadian registered aircraft here in the US?

Thanks,

Bill
Grants Pass, Oregon

Bill-

A friend of mine did it with little fanfare...since it was a Piper and made in the USA he didn't have to pay duty on it because it was returning to the home of it's origin (that was 10 years ago)...the biggest PITA was repainting over those HUGE N numbers!!! Good luck.

PITA and FAA..... synonyms.

You mean the ones on the underside of the wings? I read that was usually the biggest surprise for U.S. buyers of Canadian planes, as most "For Sale" pictures don't show that angle.

This airplane appears to only has 3" numbers on it.................

Bill
Grants Pass, Oregon

Look at the underside of the wings Bill. Every Canadian airplane has large letters that must 19.5" high. You can usually make out an aircraft's mark clearly from the ground at 600 or 700 feet AGL.

Many a student has been busted at our airport for flying outside the noise abatement corridor by homeowners on the ground looking up and recording the aircraft's mark.

This is the regulation:


Specifications for the Letters in the Marks Displayed on Aircraft

(2) The letters in the marks displayed on an aircraft shall meet the following specifications:

(a) be of equal height;

(b) subject to subsections (c) and (d), the height of each letter in the marks displayed on a heavier-than-air aircraft shall be not less than 15 cm (5.9 inches);

(c) the height of each letter in the marks displayed on the bottom surface of a wing of a heavier-than-air aircraft shall be not less than 50 cm (19.68 inches);

(d) the height of each letter in the marks displayed on the bottom surface of the fuselage or cabin of a rotorcraft shall be the lesser of

(i) 50 cm (19.68 inches), and

(ii) four fifths of the width of the fuselage or cabin;

(e) the height of each letter in the marks displayed on a lighter-than-air aircraft shall be not less than 50 cm (19.68 inches);

(f) the width of each letter in the marks displayed on an aircraft, other than the letters "I", "M" and "W", shall be two thirds of the letter's height;

(g) the width of the letter "I" in the marks displayed on an aircraft shall be one sixth of the letter's height;

(h) the width of the letter "M" or "W" in the marks displayed on an aircraft shall not exceed the letter's height;

(i) the length of a hyphen in the marks displayed on an aircraft shall be two thirds of the height of any letter in the marks;

(j) the thickness of the lines of a letter or hyphen in the marks displayed on an aircraft shall be one sixth of the height of any letter in the marks;

(k) the letters in the marks displayed on an aircraft shall be displayed adjacent to each other in a series;

(l) adjacent letters in the marks displayed on an aircraft shall be separated by a space that is not less than one quarter of the width of the letter "C" in the marks;

(m) a letter in the marks displayed on an aircraft that is adjacent to a hyphen shall be separated from the hyphen by a space that is not less than one quarter of the width of the letter "C" in the marks;

Hmmm...think I know what Bill's first change will be....

JC

Yep,

Canada being part of the Commomwealth share some of the same things we do when it comes to Aviation - Rego is displayed on the lower part of the wing so it can be read from the ground, its that way here and in the UK .....

.... actually come to think of it, I think most places out side of the US display their rego on the underside of the wing, Germany and France for instance, in fact, I'm pretty sure most of Europe do it too for that matter, along with places like South Africa and Portugal...

So there ya go...