That’s about a 3x difference in the retail price.
Unfortunately most of the Socata “airframe” parts are not available from the US Standard Part inventory. Well, not unless you did some research. I have a list of OEM part numbers here and that one appears in there, with dimensions and material spec
but it takes a while to dig this stuff out, and you will struggle for European made parts because even if you can find the catalogue, how do you know two are identical if you don’t have the catalogue P/N? This is one of a number of factors which make the EASA Part ML concessions largely worthless; using special part numbers is the oldest trick in the book.
Curiously, a google on the 1st item, Lebozec 83156, is listed here at around $13 which is about 1/3 of the Socata price. That’s an old price though. The US site is showing it as an Airbus Helicopter part, so this is probably made by Lebozec, not a US firm. So you can see the markup for the European market. Of course the Eurocopter business is playing the same game as Socata… avoid US Standard Parts and you get 3x more money.
Doesn’t the new 21.A.307 help (Parts without Form One applicable from 18 May 2022 on)?
https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/document-library/regulations/commission-delegated-regulation-eu-2021699
MichaLSA wrote:
Doesn’t the new 21.A.307 help
The old 21.A.307 could have helped. The new one has become almost impossible to use.
There are two separate issues here
