FAA Order 8130-2d
titled "Airworthiness Certification of Aircraft and Related Products", was released
in October 99. It supercedes 8130-2c, and 8130-27 below. Note: It is available now only
as an HTML document on-line, and is VERY LARGE- about 670K, so give it time to load.
Unfortunately the pictures did not convert, so you'll have to wait until the PDF version
is available for those.
FAA Order 8130.27, titled "Experimental Exhibition and Air Racing..." Superceded by 8130-2d above is Here. The Appedex's to it are , in order, Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Appendix 3, and Policy Memo 97-10 which alters the wording of Order 8130.27.
AC 20-27D is the FAA Amateur Built Advisory Circular and is attachedhere.
AC20-139, Commercial Assistance in Building Amateur-Built Aircraft, is attached Here.
AC43-9B is the FAA Maintenance records AC, which was asked forby someone, so I have attached it as a word 6.0 document here.
or you can view it on-line by clicking here.
AC 43.13-1b, Acceptable Methods, Techniques, is now on-line. I've loaded a copy into zip files Here
AC 65-23A, dealing with Repairmen Certification, is located by clicking Here
AC90-89A is the FAA Flight Test Guide, in ZIP file format, andis attached here.
If you are into Ultralights, two publications may be of interest to you.
They are AC 103-6, titled "Ultralight Vehicle Operations Airport, Air Traffic
Control and Weather," which you can see by clicking
here,
and
AC 103-7, titled "The Ultralight Vehicle"
which is avialable by clicking here.
Other forms and publications put out by the FAA need Adobe Acrobat Reader to
read.Adobe Acrobat Reader is a viewer software program which is avialable FREE
on the internet.I suggest you get at least version 3.01 or higher from the following
address: Adobe Acrobat Reader is available FREE by clicking
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You need 3.01 or higher due to a printer configuration error which is found in lower versions.
To see many Frequently Asked Questions about Amateur-built and homebuilt aircraft, click on my listing of homebuilt FAQ's here.