FAA address change

[Matt Whiting]

You just have to love the FAA. My address recently changed from a rural
route address to a road address to comply with our new county 911
system. I have an official letter saying that my new address is Cross
RD. I entered that into the FAA online address change form and it
changed it to Cross ST and said that it had been changed to be compliant
with USPS standards. It was the USPS that gave me Cross RD!!

Left hand please meet right hand. Well, if they want to call my dirt
road a street, more power to them. I just hope the mail carrier doesn't
get confused as they do use street addresses in town, but roads in the
township...


Matt

[John[_6_]]

Matt Whiting wrote:

> You just have to love the FAA. My address recently changed from a rural
> route address to a road address to comply with our new county 911
> system. I have an official letter saying that my new address is Cross
> RD. I entered that into the FAA online address change form and it
> changed it to Cross ST and said that it had been changed to be compliant
> with USPS standards. It was the USPS that gave me Cross RD!!
>
> Left hand please meet right hand. Well, if they want to call my dirt
> road a street, more power to them. I just hope the mail carrier doesn't
> get confused as they do use street addresses in town, but roads in the
> township...

In most places, Street and Road are used interchangeably by whoever named
the roads so the difference doesn't mean much. It's just important that the
entire name is correct.

If "Cross Road" is brand new, it is possible that the FAA's edition of
their database does not yet have it. You could always try calling them to
override their rules. You may have the same trouble with magazine
subscriptions for a while too. Been there.

[Viperdoc[_3_]]

Just wait until they violate you for failing to list a change of address
within 30 days!

[Jim Macklin]

Use lat/lon, that should be universal.



"Matt Whiting" > wrote in message
...
|
| You just have to love the FAA. My address recently
changed from a rural
| route address to a road address to comply with our new
county 911
| system. I have an official letter saying that my new
address is Cross
| RD. I entered that into the FAA online address change
form and it
| changed it to Cross ST and said that it had been changed
to be compliant
| with USPS standards. It was the USPS that gave me Cross
RD!!
|
| Left hand please meet right hand. Well, if they want to
call my dirt
| road a street, more power to them. I just hope the mail
carrier doesn't
| get confused as they do use street addresses in town, but
roads in the
| township...
|
|
| Matt

[nrp]

Viperdoc wrote:
> Just wait until they violate you for failing to list a change of address
> within 30 days!

My brother moved about 2 miles and filed an FAA change-of-address. It
was confirmed over 5 years later.

[Emily[_1_]]

nrp wrote:
> Viperdoc wrote:
>> Just wait until they violate you for failing to list a change of address
>> within 30 days!
>
> My brother moved about 2 miles and filed an FAA change-of-address. It
> was confirmed over 5 years later.
>
Wow, my new address showed up online before I even got the copies of my
closing documents back.

[Matt Whiting]

John wrote:
> Matt Whiting wrote:
>
>
>>You just have to love the FAA. My address recently changed from a rural
>>route address to a road address to comply with our new county 911
>>system. I have an official letter saying that my new address is Cross
>>RD. I entered that into the FAA online address change form and it
>>changed it to Cross ST and said that it had been changed to be compliant
>>with USPS standards. It was the USPS that gave me Cross RD!!
>>
>>Left hand please meet right hand. Well, if they want to call my dirt
>>road a street, more power to them. I just hope the mail carrier doesn't
>>get confused as they do use street addresses in town, but roads in the
>>township...
>
>
> In most places, Street and Road are used interchangeably by whoever named
> the roads so the difference doesn't mean much. It's just important that the
> entire name is correct.
>
> If "Cross Road" is brand new, it is possible that the FAA's edition of
> their database does not yet have it. You could always try calling them to
> override their rules. You may have the same trouble with magazine
> subscriptions for a while too. Been there.

That may well be the case as we just got the notice a few days ago. I
just tried to update my address at AOPA and their system also choked on
Cross RD and won't even take Cross ST! Maybe I just need to wait a
month and try again.

Matt

[Grumman-581[_3_]]

"Matt Whiting" > wrote in message
...
> Left hand please meet right hand. Well, if they want to call my dirt
> road a street, more power to them. I just hope the mail carrier doesn't
> get confused as they do use street addresses in town, but roads in the
> township...

You must be changing the address in the airman's database, not the aircraft
database... I don't think that they have a way to change the aircraft's
address electronically though... They support fax and snail mail, but that's
about it... That's why mine is not up to date also... I tried sending them
an email with a signed PDF file instead of a fax last night... Perhaps that
will work also...