To heck with that. My right to reverse engineer and fabricate parts for an airplane that I own is ALREADY enshrined in federal law, and our aviation user groups

To heck with that. My right to reverse engineer and fabricate parts for an airplane that I own is ALREADY enshrined in federal law, and our aviation user groups are funded and motivated to protect this privilege. It is as applicable to American Airlines (they have used it, for example, to produce replacement MD-80 tailcones) as it is to a dude with a Cessna. https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2024/january/09/aircraft-maintenance-owner-produced-parts https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2024/january/09... Edit - Source on AA fabricating their own tailcones: https://www.flightglobal.com/american-airlines-drives-efficiency-with-md-80-tail-cone-retrofits/76787.article https://www.flightglobal.com/american-airlines-drives-effici...