Placement of Placards

[Dorsal]

Ran across this tid-bit in an article called "Tales from the DAR side"

"There are only three items of information required: 1) builder name, 2) aircraft model designation, and 3) aircraft serial number. That’s it! No other information is required or desired. Even if the data plate you purchase has room for more, I suggest you only mark these three items. This way, the data plate will always be correct and will not include any information that’s out of date or no longer applicable."

Going to get a smaller data plate

[Dave S]

Hi guys,

Ours ended up under the HS like Chuck & DJ, with a backing plate on the other side of the fabric.

One addition on ours is this; regarding the little quote..."....or lost or destroyed in an accident...."........ A small metal strap which is riveted through the backing plate on both ends and looping around a fuselage tube. Apparently the issue is the authorities want to be able to figure out who it used to be in the event of a complete smoking hole.......don't know if all DARs would expect this or not - I am thinking there are degrees of regulatory discretion which occur on this and other issues.

One little point - I made the mistake of having "first name - last name" the plate while my registration had "last name - first name" - I was advised they had to be identical and it is easier to change the plate than the registration - make sure you have that right so you don't have to drill SS rivets out of the plates over fabric.....


Sincerely

Dave S

[Dorsal]

Good tip Dave, thanks (given many view my last name and first name as interchangeable )

[cap01]

you might check with your dar and see exactly what he requires on the data plate . the data plate info was a big deal with the one that looked at mine . all that he required was make , model and sn . the make and model have to be exactly as it is on the registration . i had a little problem with that , since i am the fourth owner of the kit . the first owner had already gotten the registration and had his name put on it as the manufacture , therefore the make on the data plate is his name and the model is a kitfox IV . not a big deal , just getting it sorted out was , but thats another story

[Dorsal]

For what it is worth I contacted Aircraft Engravers in CT, called them on a Wednesday, emailed my data and had a beautiful small plate in the mail on Thursday with all my info on it. It does not show on their website but they have a nice plate with just the three fields required for a data plate.
Great service, nice people.

Also for those who have the situation similar to CAP01 you can retract a registration and change the builder for a plane that was registered "prematurely" for which no airworthiness had been done.