After reading the posting on the SSA site regarding program letters I
sent in one for the plane I own with a partner. According to the old
letter it was based in Minden. I simply wrote up a new version,
basing out of Avenal and listed several places that I might want to go
fly in 2010 such as the Great Basin or Euphrata. The FSDO just wanted
to see copies of the log book and of the original airworthiness
certificate. Once we brought them the airworthiness cert and log
book, they gave us a new airworthiness cert for the Fresno FSDO and a
fresh program letter. It was pretty painless.

They do want to perform a ramp inspection, but I haven't scheduled
that yet. There are several of us that need the ramp inspection,
we'll probably try to get everyone to schedule their inspection on the
same day to keep things efficient and to keep from having too much
time to spend on any one aircraft nitpicking.

Morgan