Aero-TV: 'Airborne' Breaking News - The FAA Gets 'Serious' With The LSA Biz

Aero-TV: 'Airborne' Breaking News... The FAA Gets 'Serious' With The LSA Biz The Grounding Of Criquet Aviation Raises Industry Fears About FAA Attitude Towards LSA ANN RealTime Update, 09.08.11, 1121 ET: The FAA has refused further comment on this story and our attempts to interview staffers from AIR-200 have been politely turned away. Questions about the specifics of the grounding order and the reasons for its imposition remain unanswered. ANN reported the first known 'grounding' of an LSA manufacturer, by the FAA, last week, when a memo produced by the FAA's AIR-200 was forwarded to us shortly after it was written. The August 30th Memo sent to "All Manufacturing Inspection Offices, All Manufacturing District/Satellite Offices, All Certificate Management Offices/Units, All Flight Standards Divisions, All Flight Standards District Offices, and all Aircraft Registration Branch AFS-750 (with an additional notation recommending the memo's dissemination to "appropriate designees"), Terry Allen, the Acting Manager, Production and Airworthiness, for AIR-200. Allen appeared to many to be 'making good' on the FAA's promise/threat (issued last year after touring LSA facilities throughout the nation) to step up the surveillance and involvement in the LSA industry. Using a "prototype LSA Audit Program", the FAA inspected Criquet Aviation USA, Inc., the manufacturers of the Storch FI-156 LSA. The result of this July 13 th audit, one of the first of its kind, was the rescinding of ...

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