vernhendershott
Well Known Member
Hi Jerry,
As there are no AD notes for ELSA's we will not have this incentive, but after the first of the year you may find it a good bit harder to sell an unmodified RV-12 with out discounting the sale price by the amount to get this done professionally plus some additional for the down time required. If I were buying it would be $ 2,000 more off the price.
Then there are the insurance companies who may decided to not cover RV-12's unless this SB is accomplished or they may charge more for the additional risk if the RV-12 is not fixed.
So you do not need to do the SB unless you may someday want to sell the aircraft or need to carry insurance on it.
Best regards,
Vern
As there are no AD notes for ELSA's we will not have this incentive, but after the first of the year you may find it a good bit harder to sell an unmodified RV-12 with out discounting the sale price by the amount to get this done professionally plus some additional for the down time required. If I were buying it would be $ 2,000 more off the price.
Then there are the insurance companies who may decided to not cover RV-12's unless this SB is accomplished or they may charge more for the additional risk if the RV-12 is not fixed.
So you do not need to do the SB unless you may someday want to sell the aircraft or need to carry insurance on it.
Best regards,
Vern
It's hard for me to believe, that all the owners of all one hundred and fifty-one flying RV-12's and perhaps another hundred, perhaps two hundred or more RV-12's still being built ... all with their non-leaking gas tanks installed and not yet flying will all remove their gas tanks, tear them apart, drill another twelve holes in a fuel tank with hundreds of predrilled holes manufactured in them already, clean the old sealant, add clips, nutplates, drill out and re-rivet and etc, etc. etc. ... ain't gonna happen.
Seems to me, the only way that it would happen would be in the form of an AD (Airworthy Directive). I know I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed and I will if I must but ...