Advice - Importing RV-7 from South Africa

[Guest StuartAberdein]

Hi Everyone,

 

Just joined. I am currently living in Durban (Seth Efrica) but looking at moving to Brisbane some time in the next few years. I should have a Van's RV-7 finished by the end of this year and I am looking for a few pointers about the practicalities and legalities of bringing it with me.

 

Can anyone help?

 

Thanks,

 

Stuart

 

 

[youngmic]

Welcome in advance.

 

Can't give you any hard answers but I wouldn't imagine it would be a problem putting it on the Australian register. I'm thinking $5000 AUD to sea container it here, but that is a bit of an old figure. Flying it over is about a 10 day exercise and you'd need range capability of around 600nm. Contact the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) via internet and put your question to them that would give you a solid answer with regard to their requirements.

 

RV's are about as common as dirt over here and an ideal aircraft to get around Oz.

 

Hangarage is often tricky but achievable.

 

You could try posting this on the Dunnunda and Godzone on the Pprune site.

 

Regards

 

Mick

 

 

[Guest StuartAberdein]

Thanks

 

Thanks

 

 

[poteroo]

I'm aware of a company at Wonderboom, (Pretoria), who will be containering a large retractable aircraft out to Perth, WA, about mid year. I can give you the contact and I'm sure they'll be able to advise. Ferrying is a big job,and not for the faint hearted. We have some 12 RV's located at my home airport.

 

cheers,

 

 

[Guest brentc]

Getting it on the register may not be that easy unless you can prove that you built it youself. The SAAA would have the best advice on this. I would suggest that you take lots of photos and keep a builders diary as this will be very important.

 

If the SAAA or CASA Delegated Inspector gets a hint or sniff that you may not be the full builder, then you'll be subject to a LAME maintaining it, or even still they may choose not to register it.

 

 

[Guest StuartAberdein]

Thanks.

 

 

[poteroo]

There have been several RV's imported in the last year and they were all US built, and onsold to Aussie owners, who then organised the import. Paperwork needs to be accurate, but to my knowledge, it doesn't matter if you are the original builder or not. The issue of chequebook building is quite a different matter to importation. As correctly stated by an earlier post, SAAA should be consulted.