Reply #20: cars and planes - some german aspects [View All]

[medienanalyse]

I find your chitchat a valuable mind clearing. We germans are said to be very official and serious, but: My guess is that airtraffic means some more paperwork and bureaucracy than to run a car in Germany.
We have the following issues involved:
a) registration (ownership)
b) TÜV (technical surveillance) (streetworthyness)
c) taxes
d) insurance

All of them are interwoven. I.e. without paying your taxes you will get a lot of problems leading in the end to loosing the car. But if you go to the registration office and tell them that your car is an oldtimer: you will get a special tax. Or if you tell them that you did not get streetworthyness anymore, you will loose a button on the plates, but you can still obtain the physical car (you are the owner) and the plates - but never show up on a street with it, otherwise ...
it is in you interest to not pay any insurance and tax anymore in this case.

So to compare it with the four planes: if I were regulating the FAA procedures according to international law, tax law, airsafety law and insurance law: I would keep up the registration of the planes including (!!!!) my undisputable will to tax the planes to inspect them regularly and to know them to be insured - untill the owner comes and changes the registration. Oldtimers would loose airworthyness (remark in the computersystem and remark in your paperwork) and duty of insurance. The registration would not be wiped out but changed in the case of a passenger jet because of the sense of ACARS: to make sure that parts of the planes are branmarked wit their history.

The question remains: was the registration changed to another owner/oldtimer/destroyed ? No? So the companies still pay taxes, check the airworthyness and keep the planes insured untill now.

Tertium non datur. There is no alternative.

Dulce: to fix your case - have you with your incredible possibilities of research any idea where the United planes were insured and if they still pay the insurance? (because the airworthyness they might get in another country too -or not?) Is there a "last inspection -button somewhere at the FAA? Compared with other planes?