I was looking for a glider last year and a local club was selling a peg
that had been re-lifed on hours abroad i.e. Europe. So I'm pretty sure
there is a firm doing the work some how...

wrote:
What about Canada? I have no idea and don't own a Peg but maybe there
is some FAA loophole if you export the ship to Canada and then
re-import it under a new registration and air worthiness cert.

Just a thought. Canada wouldn't be a terrible distance to drive.



On Jan 5, 6:02 pm, "Craig" wrote:
It is indeed an unfortunate situation. The Peg's a nice ship. It
seems to me that Centrair's reluctance would be primarily economic.
They no longer need the US soaring community as a customer base and
they have a regulatory sunset in place for the 51 STC'd birds that are
in the high liability US market. Sounds like a "get out of jail free"
card to me.

The class action route is likely to be expensive and there may be
statutes of limitations that restrict what can be done, etc. If you
valued each airframe at $15k that's still only $765k for the lot of
them. Rounding up to an even mil. for the whole thing, it's still no
more than a couple of personal injury cases would cost. On a larger
scale, Beechcraft bought up nearly the entire fleet of Starships and
destroyed them for similar reasons if I understand correctly.

The French market may be the best bet if the Pegasus reverts to the
higher hour limit upon re-registration. Are there other countries
where this might work? If so it would spread out the number of ships
flooding the market. The weak dollar doesn't help either. Sorry to
hear the bad news.

So Tom, I'm assuming the weather in Idaho has been crummy and you were
just trolling to see what would come to the surface or do you have a
dog in the fight?

Best regards,
Craig