"Bret Ludwig" wrote in message
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Is a -5J treated differently than a recip or turboprop (evidently,
there are...)5? Forgive my ignorance, I've been out of school a long
time.

In this case it is because it was started in Australia, more than 51% was
done there, the builder is a well known CASA technical advisor but he never
kept logs or pics. Hence, the FAA does not want to consider giving me
amateur-built, even though that is the way it was registered in Australia
(VH-JRQ). So I'm stuck in Exp/Exhibition, and category IV, to boot, the
catch-all category. It wouldn't be so bad except that I picked the one place
in the US where I should not have done this.