Trump's Citation X not registered

[Marauder]

34 minutes ago, Marauder said: Only if you have a shovel to dig him up...

He's still alive (84)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_King_(boxing_promoter)

So he is! I thought he was pushing daisies.

[chrisk]

On the Trump side.  I'm sure Donald Trump is not the owner or operator.   He is not going to jail.  What ever corporate entity that owns the jet is not going to jail.  the pilot will not be going to jail.   You only go to jail when you are stupid enough to work for the post office and embarrass the federal government by landing a flying lawn chair on the capitol lawn.

My question is:  Why does a registration only last 3 years?  It seems a bit short and the government could save lots of money by making the registration last 20 years.

 

[mike_elliott]

50 minutes ago, chrisk said:

My question is:  Why does a registration only last 3 years?

Pick one

1) that's how long it takes to process the app

2) that's how long it takes someone to go off break to process the app

3) that's how long the overloaded PDP11's they are using takes to index on an N number field

4) that's how long it will take the Post office to get it there

5) that's the maximum interest and penalty period

6) It was thought up by a politician

7) that's how long it will take to train someone to process the app

8) that's how long it will take to get a decision as to where the $5 should be deposited

9) Election every 4 years, fodder for the election would be best served in 3 years

[chrisk]

Interestingly enough, I just saw the following in the FAA extension bill:

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) introduced an amendment that extends the registration period for noncommercial general aviation aircraft to five years

[Guest]

54 minutes ago, chrisk said:

Interestingly enough, I just saw the following in the FAA extension bill:

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) introduced an amendment that extends the registration period for noncommercial general aviation aircraft to five years

Wouldn't it just make sense to leave the C of R alone until a sale takes place?

Clarence 

[Hank]

Just now, M20Doc said:

Wouldn't it just make sense to leave the C of R alone until a sale takes place?

Clarence 

That's how it worked here until just a few years ago. 2010-ish, I think, is when the silly 3-year registration period started.

why? Ask the poloticos who implemented the changes.

[DonMuncy]

Three years is probably too short, but I can see the need for some registration. The old way, no one knew how many planes were out there, and planes could be destroyed or parted out with no ability to reuse the registration number.

[mooniac15u]

Considering all the other calendar based things we track and keep current the 3 year registration hardly seems worth complaining about. In Ohio we have to register our planes every year and it costs a little more than $5. 

[salty]

On April 20, 2016 at 4:11 PM, aviatoreb said:

I think that's excessive.  No one needs more than two Sikorsky helicopters.

Actually, with the maintenance requirements they have it's probably pointless to own less than three.

[Hank]

1 hour ago, mooniac15u said:

Considering all the other calendar based things we track and keep current the 3 year registration hardly seems worth complaining about. In Ohio we have to register our planes every year and it costs a little more than $5. 

When I was inOhio (airplane owner '07-14), annual state registration was $5 per seat. I don't mind not living there any more, hated the winters, but made some good friends.

[mooniac15u]

Just now, Hank said:

When I was inOhio (airplane owner '07-14), annual state registration was $5 per seat. I don't mind not living there any more, hated the winters, but made some good friends.

It's been $15 per seat for at least the past 10 years. 

[Hank]

I stand corrected! I knew it was per seat . . . And that $5 wasn't enough. How fast we forget! 

Got to mow the grass again tomorrow. The neighborhood pool will be opening soon, too. And I need to go flying . . . I'm feeling a distinct lack of altitude,but there are T-storms moving through today. Broken skies, intermittent low and clearing, occasional downpours. Not good for light GA. But tomorrow, tomorrow . . . .

[mooniac15u]

1 hour ago, Hank said:

I stand corrected! I knew it was per seat . . . And that $5 wasn't enough. How fast we forget! 

Got to mow the grass again tomorrow. The neighborhood pool will be opening soon, too. And I need to go flying . . . I'm feeling a distinct lack of altitude,but there are T-storms moving through today. Broken skies, intermittent low and clearing, occasional downpours. Not good for light GA. But tomorrow, tomorrow . . . .

Are you sure you left? It sounds the same as here. 

Too bad you aren't in Ohio anymore. Just last weekend @steingar and I held the inaugural meeting of the Central Ohio Mooney Group. 

[bradp]

I propose an amendment to the naming bill.  Should be named Central Ohio Mooney Association or COMA. 

:-) 

 

[Hank]

Wow. I used to be a member of the Central Ohio Woodturners (COW). Sometimes there is more to it than the name . . .

[Amelia]

I bailed out of Ohio a couple of decades ago, when it was still $5/seat. It is still fun to go back and see old friends and smell the Amish agriculture, but my visitors from Wooster a week ago or so, still had snow on the ground. In April. That's just wrong!!! They loved Edenton's garden tour, enjoyed the azaleas tolerated the 65-degree sunshine I apologized for. It is usually 75 here that week.