EAA & FAA Discuss Experimental Amateur-Built Rules

2008 EAA/FAA Recreational Aviation Summit

EAA's Earl Lawrence discusses homebuilt issues

with the FAA's Nick Sabatini and John Hickey

during recent recreational aviation summit meeting.

February 6, 2008 — In November last year, EAA President Tom Poberezny commented, “The EAA community consistently rallies behind efforts to open as many doors as possible to aviation enthusiasts. That’s why we want to protect the existing amateur-building rules, including the spirit of the 51-percent requirement, to preserve the nearly unlimited scope of that category. Under those rules, an innovator has the flexibility to construct virtually any imaginable flying machine. We don’t want to lose that freedom.”