Originally Posted by
wjl408
I am considering purchasing a single plane part 135 company and have a few concerns, the first being is that now it is a single engine airplane on the certificate and I want to know how much is involved to change to a multi engine aircraft (Navajo) and also how hard to add coverage to the operating area (Bahamas). The final concern is there a problem changing FSDO's. Thanks for any help in this matter
Read through Part 135. When you go from single engine to multi, all kinds of regs change as far as paperwork is concerned, as well as record keeping, training, maint, etc. It's a pretty big leap to add an engine, and the ops manual will have to be rewritten and the resubmitted for approval through the FSDO. The particualar operation may have limitations within their certificate that preclude doing that as well.