Another thing left unsettled over the winter was the n-number. FAA rules say you can make up your own n-number but the letters can only be on the last two spaces, and it could not start with a 0.
All the good versions of __SK were taken, I tried several number sequences and finally settled on 615MK, for my birthday (61) and 5MK as a stylized version of my initials.
But I kept hearing grumblings from OspRey, she just didn't like the n-number. I asked her one day and she told me it was because it wasn't HER name, it was mine. And by coincidence MK was also Einar's wife initial's Michelle Ketilsson. I knew I had to make a change.
It was at Sun n Fun that I started mulling some other options, and it was there in front of my face: 05PY. OSPreY. 105PY was taken by a balloon, but 305PY, 705PY and 805PY were available. After talking it over OspRey got her new n-number reserved, N805PY.
Today was spent at the hangar taking the hull off the frame and thinking about where to go from here. Plans are afoot.
All the good versions of __SK were taken, I tried several number sequences and finally settled on 615MK, for my birthday (61) and 5MK as a stylized version of my initials.
But I kept hearing grumblings from OspRey, she just didn't like the n-number. I asked her one day and she told me it was because it wasn't HER name, it was mine. And by coincidence MK was also Einar's wife initial's Michelle Ketilsson. I knew I had to make a change.
It was at Sun n Fun that I started mulling some other options, and it was there in front of my face: 05PY. OSPreY. 105PY was taken by a balloon, but 305PY, 705PY and 805PY were available. After talking it over OspRey got her new n-number reserved, N805PY.
Today was spent at the hangar taking the hull off the frame and thinking about where to go from here. Plans are afoot.
