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5th April 2007, 10:33 AM

"Borat" <borat$$@kazak.com> wrote:

>As to owning an aircraft, unless you have residency you cannot.

Don't you have to be a U.S. *citizen* to own an N-reg?

There are plenty of non-US-resident US-citizen pilots who own N-reg
airplanes.

There is no doubt that as an Englishman you could simply buy an N-reg
airplane but the CofA or CofR would be invalid unless the owner meets
the ownership requirement. This happened, I believe, in a well known
case many years ago where the insurer refused to pay out and the
wealthy estate of the pilot was cleaned out by the dependants of the
passengers. I tried to find out more (out of curiosity) but nobody was
willing to part with the information; nevertheless it appeared that
this is what must have happened.

5th April 2007, 10:33 AM	#3 (permalink)
Peter Guest Posts: n/a Classified Rating: % ()	PPL across the midwest? "Borat" <borat$$@kazak.com> wrote: >As to owning an aircraft, unless you have residency you cannot. Don't you have to be a U.S. citizen to own an N-reg? There are plenty of non-US-resident US-citizen pilots who own N-reg airplanes. There is no doubt that as an Englishman you could simply buy an N-reg airplane but the CofA or CofR would be invalid unless the owner meets the ownership requirement. This happened, I believe, in a well known case many years ago where the insurer refused to pay out and the wealthy estate of the pilot was cleaned out by the dependants of the passengers. I tried to find out more (out of curiosity) but nobody was willing to part with the information; nevertheless it appeared that this is what must have happened.