There are no lifed items in the Morane, other than the engine. There is wear though.
Talking about “life-limited” or “lifed” parts is unfortunate wording though. As you know, they are not legally “limited” unless it is an airworthiness limitation.
I agree, but IME most Part M companies enforce the whole MM, and demand an EASA-1 form (or an 8130-3 form if the part is brand new) on everything.
This airplane has practically nothing to do with Socata though
It is still French 
It’s gonna be full of bits hand-made in little wooden sheds in France, like this. The options for replacing them depend on your maintenance situation. Somebody in the “wrong” situation will be limited to using parts from parted-out planes which passed through a Part 145 and come with an EASA-1 form.
Obviously this is speculation but probably a reasonable one. I’ve been dealing with this stuff for 15 years.
I agree, but IME most Part M companies enforce the whole MM
I don’t believe so. For a start, they will essentially do what the approved maintenance program says they have to do.
I can only comment about my maintainance company and they will only maintain aircraft to their approved maintainance programme which is basically LAMP.
If you don’t want that then you go elsewhere and unfortunately there is no where else that is practical to go to.
Also aircraft that are used for flight instruction are not allowed to move onto a SDMP for just under another two years. And that assumes the goalpost don’t move again.
Everytime a rallye leaves my hangar I go, no more rallyes. I always end up breaking that promise. They take up alot of space, are a pain to move in and out and if you leave them out the wind catches them and catches them in a way that would never stir a Cherokee.
I predict they will become a classic like a 2CV or Renault 5 in time to come.
Photo pulled from the internet, taken in 1974. I wonder what ‘textil’ company owned the plane, and why? The low airframe time doesn’t match with a company flying club plane. Company owner’s plane?
I wonder what ‘textil’ company owned the plane, and why?
Could be some kind of sponsoring / advertising on that plane. In Germany it is not too seldom – even on gliders you can find the name of the bank that finances it or the name of a local brewery …
There was a 893 Rallye at our club, the owner had lost his medical and decided to sell. However no-one was really interested to buy it because people typically referred to it as French ‘edel-schrott’ (literally luxury junk) and the owner wasn’t too unhappy either, he flew regularly with it to the Fresian Islands.. He sadly passed away and his family donated it to the club whereupon it was mounted on a pole and the outline was covered in green LED lights, at night it looks pretty cool, letting people know who drive along the main road that yes, here is an airfield…..
Will see if I can get a decent night picture of it, it does look nice.
Steve6443 wrote:
There was a 893 Rallye at our club, the owner had lost his medical and decided to sell. However no-one was really interested to buy it because people typically referred to it as French ‘edel-schrott’ (literally luxury junk) and the owner wasn’t too unhappy either, he flew regularly with it to the Fresian Islands..
The story isn’t entirely true. We have inquired him for the plane and he said it was sold so we never got the chance of performing an inspection on this aircraft. It is really sad to see it wasted like this, when I had a perfect buyer at hand. I am a bit angry now, to be honest.
A number of Rallyes have big corrosion issues
