FAA re-registration programme starts

The Federal Aviation Administration in Washington has published full details of its re-registration requirement for all N-registered civil aircraft worldwide, which is due to begin on November 1st and run until December 2013. Registrations will henceforth be time-limited and will have to be renewed every three years. Owners must comply – the registration of any aircraft not re-registered at the correct time will be cancelled.
The aim is to gather more accurate data on N-registered aircraft, to weed out those aircraft which have been destroyed or scrapped but are still on the books, and to make life difficult more for those who are fraudulently using US registered-aircraft. For bona fide owners it is no more than an irritation.
Re-registration is required to a schedule set out by the FAA on its website and begins on November 1st with aircraft whose registration certificate was issued in March of any year and is due to expire in March 2011. For full details see: http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=11617&wwparam=1280... 7/26/2010
Current regulations require owners to report the sale of an aircraft, the scrapping or destruction of an aircraft, or a change in mailing address, but many owners have not complied with those requirements and there are estimated to be several tens of thousands of ‘phantom’ aircraft on the register.

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