Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

So, was it changed at some time in the recent past?

To my knowledge, the Citabria's certification hasn't changed since the
initial FAA certification tests.


Me too. It's pretty obvious that it has always had limited aerobatic
capability. that;'s just the kind of airplane it is. But I don't
remember the G restriction on it. Maybe it's a concession due to the
spar AD.

The g restriction actually IS the limited aerobatic cert. 6/3 is the
full category, and the Citabria is reduced to 5/2 which defines the
limited category.



Our's has wood spars, which I prefer anyway, but they're new and STC'd
with several mods provided by a guy in Oregon who has thickend them up
in both thickness and height. and they have improved, feathered, doubler
plates, so the psar issues should be no problem with this airplane. Also
there will be only three of us flying it so it shouldn't get any knocks
that we don;t know about.

Sounds like a good setup. Just tell everybody to get the nose well up
before rolling it and you'll keep the nose low rolling pullouts with
that added g under control :-))


Bertie


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Dudley Henriques