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Except none of that can be used until someone goes through the millions of dollars to do all the design work, safety testing, and mountains of FAA paperwork. Oh, and take on the liability of a mistake killing a bunch of people.

In the mean time, rebuilds have to meet the existing design. Which has specific standards.

It's not like Cessnas themselves can't be wildly improved on in general!

As an old Boeing engineer friend of mine used to say 'when the weight of the paperwork exceeds the gross weight of the plane, it will fly.'.




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