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E-Mail: maif@ca8.co28 AERONAUTICAL INFORMATION CIRCULAR 13.1
08-05-09
GENERAL
REGISTRATION OF AIRCRAFT
REGISTRATION LETTER ALLOCATIONS FOR ROTORCRAFT
The South African Civil Aviation Authority is presently involved in a process to effect improvements to facilitate aviation
functioning and development in addition to its prime mandate of ensuring an acceptable level of aviation safety in the
Republic, as set Out in Section 3 of the South African Civil Aviation Act, 1998 No. 40 of 1998).
It has been brought to our attention that there have been certain difficulties faced by the rotorcraft fraternity in relation
to the assignment of registration letters. The purpose of this AIC is to confirm a recent policy decision reached
pertaining to such rotorcraft registration letter allocations.
1. The registration letters to be forall rotorcraft as from date ofthis AiC with with either H or
R following the national ZS or ZU identity.
2. Rotorcraft owners who have previously been allocated registration letters beginning with letters other than H
or R will be offered the opportunity to have such registration letters rescinded and replaced without any
to the SACAA, until 31 December 2008, letter allocations with either H or
R following the national ZS or ZU identity.
3. It is recommended that rotorcraft owners make use of the above dispensation in order to ensure.
standardization of registration mark identities for all rotorcraft in order to facilitate an easy identification of
rotorcraft by
4. Applicants for the registration of rotorcraft wHi not be charged the special registration fee when issued the
registration letters Hand R in sequence. However, helicopter registration applications which are requested
to be out of sequence, will be liable for the current R2000 special registration fee.
5, AIl owners wing aircraft that have been assigned registration letter allocations beginning with H or
R will be offered the opportunity to have such registration letters rescinded and replaced by any other
acceptable and available registration letter allocation, without any payment to the SACAA, until the
31st December 2008.
Since there have been numerous H and R registration letter issued to fIxed wing aircraft we
caution that no assumption is to be made that an aircraft with the call-sign beginning with H or R is
positively a rotorcraft.
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