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Can You Fly Without an Aircraft Registration?

If you own your own plane, you are likely familiar with the aircraft registration process. Chances are good that when your plane was purchased, you submitted a registration to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), along with several other pertinent pieces of documentation. What happens, however, if you forget to renew your registration? Can you still…

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Taking Off With Your Aircraft Initial Registration

Even if you have all the money in the world, great connections, and more, it’s not always easy to get the right airplane. Once you do, you probably want to get up in the sky. Before that, though, there’s one more important step: getting your aircraft’s initial registration. Aircraft registration paperwork is, for just about…

Facts about Airplane Registration

Little Known Facts about Airplane Registration

Airplanes are one of the most recent forms of transportation. By that same token, airplane registration became mandatory more recently than most people might think. For example, according to the FAA, registration of an airplane didn’t become mandatory until the “Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938.” At that time, in their words “provided for recording of…