In article Burt Compton - Marfa writes:

The SSA has it covered. Just some of the good behind the scenes work
they accomplish for us.


The Identification Plate Exemption # 4988 and the Extension Letter
(now valid to OCT 30, 2011), are on the SSA website at

http://www.ssa.org/files/member/Data...ion%202008.pdf

Yes, you must carry both documents in the glider if you do not want to
secure an external identification plate to your glider.

The exemption letter is reissued by the FAA every 3 years, at the
discretion of the FAA, after the SSA submits a petition.
I believe Judy Ruprecht is submitting this recurring petition for us.

To clarify a bit, there are two documents that one must carry for this.

1) The original exemption letter, which is 4 pages long. It can be
downloaded from:
http://www.ssa.org/docs/Exemption4988.pdf

2) Since the original exemption from that letter terminates on Oct 30, 1990,
you also need the extension letter, which is 2 pages long. It is at:
http://www.ssa.org/files/member/Data...ion%202008.pdf


Caution, one of the older pages on the SSA site lists these pages of the 2002
update letter, which is now useless. (http://www.ssa.org/docs/080120001.pdf
and http://www.ssa.org/docs/080120002.pdf) You should use the current ones
mentioned above.


As another poster mentioned, there doesn't seem to be any restriction against
2 sided printing, or scaling the pages smaller and putting several on a page.
It probably should be kept readable, but one sheet can be tucked securely away
somewhere.

I keep my own copy in the bag with my logbooks and charts as well. It might
reduce embarassment some day. (There is also a spare yaw string in there.)

Alan