Sandman was a childhood nickname. I was going to start with a WW tray and spools, then playing with mounting and cg. Lots of options on for and aft starter, alternator, battery location and such. Just

Sandman? This is the first Corvair mount I saw for a small firewall. This was a KR2 firewall mock-up in 2001. I built one, tested to failure, rebuilt correcting flaws, retested. Modified an existing

Charlie has I believe a 3.0L on his Dragonfly. The firewalls are not all that much different dimensionally between the Q bird and Dragonfly. One of the advantages is the engine can be "tight" to the

All very helpful info. I am in contact with po and hopeful we can do bos. That will be first step. I also am in good with local FSDO and a DAR. I definitely want this sorted before hand. If all goes

I wonder..Bruce..which FSDO did your DAR work with? I presume Tulsa is where I will go through, but in my case the truth is the entire critter is not possible to be a kit! Nothing like what they are

There are two different issues here: Registration Air Worthiness Certificate Registration comes under the jurisdiction of Oklahoma City, the FAA Registration Center. Until it is registered, it

The lesson here, Brian, is to stop calling it a kit. Kits didn't exist when the Q2 was being produced. Calling it a kit will only complicate things with the FAA. It's plans-built. Bob

Kind of hijacking. I have a q200 kit to build. Not the original purchaser. Anything special about registration, Airworthiness very etc as a first build not original kit purchaser? Brian

Good advice, Charlie. Water under the bridge for me, but it is good for anyone who is facing this as an upcoming task. Cheers, Jay

Every FSDO has a different story. OK City is probably the most bureaucratic and the slowest. I went through SLC for my airworthiness, which in the end seemed reasonable, but my DAR was a retired

Jay, I was told by the FSDO do not read things into the regulations. By FAA definition Q’s are not “kits” they were before the 51% rule. They are EAB plans built airplanes even if the shells

Whether or not you can re-register it, may depend on who you get hold of at OK City. If you can’t re-register it, you can probably still get it registered as a different aircraft. I bought a

I ran into this issue with mine, Charlie. I think I may be the most recent Q to have been certified (2018), but things have even changed since then. The Dragonfly and QAC ran their course before the

Jay, I just looked at the FAA approved kit list. The Q’s like Dragonfly do not appear on the list. That puts it in the category of plans built. I deregistered my Dragonfly by writing scrapped on

I ve also had some success using a blower aimed under the paint as I lift it with a razor scraper

Nick, I had to do the same, it had bondo or similar under the paint to fill the imperfections, plus the carbon black layer which over the years becomes damp and then detaches,

Oh in reading the registration page on the FAA website the airworthiness is listed as expired, not terminated or other language that would signify it was turned in.

It's not that the airworthiness expired, but that someone specifically asked that it be cancelled. The FAA is usually (eventually -- it can take months) flexible about this, especially if you can get

I havent though about that, i have contacted the previous owner, mostly to get background, but also knowing ill need bill of sale. I was thinking certified aircraft. Where the airworthiness doesn't

IMO the best approach is to call it by a new model name (something like: Quickie model Q2A, serial number 1), then register it as a new homebuilt replica Q2 as built from parts. If you try to use the