commercial registered airplane

Eagle · Post by **Eagle** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:04 am

Is it possible and legal for a private pilot to use a commercial registered airplane for timebuilding and flighttraining?

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:10 am

Of course. Every time someone rents an airplane from a flight school, they do precisely that.

Eagle · Post by **Eagle** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:32 am

Ok, but what if the plane is commercial registered for air charter services?

Brewguy · Post by **Brewguy** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:34 am

No problem ... as long as:
1. YOU (as a PPL are not flying for hire or reward); and
2. Their insurance coverage allows them to rent the a/c, and you to fly it.

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:44 am

Is the a/c being operated as per the OC?

Eagle · Post by **Eagle** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:31 pm

Hedley,
I would be the private pilot. I can not tell if the a/c would be operated as per OC? Could you be more specific what you mean by this?

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:28 pm

Ok. If an aircraft is commercially registered, it is by definition in the custody and control of a commercial entity which by definition has a very expensive pile of documents that have been approved by Transport which describe in exacting, painful detail how the aircraft is to be maintained and operated.

This commercial entity will no doubt have a Chief Pilot who will be very familiar with the necessary qualifications of pilots to operate the aircraft, and is the guy you need to talk to.

Clear as mud?

185_guy · Post by **185_guy** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:20 pm

Headly,
If a company were to sell an aircraft (that was commercially registered), to a private farmer joe, couldent Joe keep the plane commercially registered so it may be easier to sell in the future? As long as he maintained it to whatever standards (CARS 706?)??
Thus, our guy in question would be flying a commercially registered plane, but not realted to a company?

Maybe I am out to lunch?!!!

Lurch · Post by **Lurch** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:24 pm

185_guy wrote:Headly,
If a company were to sell an aircraft (that was commercially registered), to a private farmer joe, couldent Joe keep the plane commercially registered so it may be easier to sell in the future? As long as he maintained it to whatever standards (CARS 706?)??
Thus, our guy in question would be flying a commercially registered plane, but not realted to a company?

Maybe I am out to lunch?!!!

I'm sure to be corrected but I think you would need an OC to keep it commercially registered. If not when you registered the A/C under your name it would then become privately registered.

niss · Post by **niss** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:15 pm

I thought you could register it commercially if it was being owned by a corperation and you only needed an OC if you were to generate revenue with said aircraft.

Im probably wrong but I havent contributed to this thread yet, so theres my piece.

youngflier · Post by **youngflier** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:00 pm

Hedley wrote:Of course. Every time someone rents an airplane from a flight school, they do precisely that.

"owned"

Highsea · Post by **Highsea** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:28 pm

Niss,

A corporate aircraft have Private Operator Certificates and fall under 604 in the CARS. All Private Operator Certificate are for private aircraft. Telus has a Cessna Citation X and a Turbo Beaver Registrater as private aircraft. anyone with a turbine-powered pressurized aeroplane needs one now.