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If it’s on an amateur-built experimental (this is still Kitplanes, right?), by the FAA’s definition it’s not airworthy from the get-go.
Whether it’s in a condition for safe operation is a different matter altogether,
Ironically, we do give them an airworthiness certificate.
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