Larry Dighera

Personally, I see no reason, nor Constitutional authority, for our government to intrude on our citizens' freedom to commission the construction of an aircraft. The FAA's jurisdiction should be, and probably is, limited to assuring that a given aircraft is (or is not) _safe_ for operation in the National Airspace System, nothing more. By what authority does the FAA presume to govern armature builders' participation in fabrication and assembly of aircraft seeking a Experimental Airworthiness Certificate? FAA should be solely concerned that the aircraft in question poses no unacceptable hazard to the operator, passengers, and public, nothing more. Clearly the FAA has overstepped its purview for decades in regulating the activities of armature aircraft builders. This entire Armature Build oversight by the FAA belies the FAA's desire to shield their Type Certificate program and the commercial manufacturers that have a vested interest in suppressing marketplace competition. If the FAA is going to permit the sale of armature built aircraft licensed as experimental, and operation of those aircraft by certificated non-builder airmen, then the ban on commissioning one to be built for you seems at least arbitrary and inconsistent with the FAA's objectives.