Greetings All:
I'm sitting in a camp trailer here at Corning Municipal Airport California this evening after the first day of training in the 15 day 120 hour LSA Repairman's certificate course. Exhausting. It's about like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. There is no way in the world to absorb all of this permanent like. It's more of a "how to find the answer" sort of an effort. This is a relatively new FAA category of mechanic's certificate and will allow inspection and repair for hire of E-LSA and S-LSA aircraft no matter who built them. Two modules each of Rotax 2 and 4 stroke training. I wasn't sure that all the stars would line up to get here but I'm glad I came. Good folks teaching it and a bunch of good folks taking the course.

It took two days to get the computer hooked up to the personal hotspot on my iPhone but I'm in internet business now.

Cool! Glad you were able to take the course!

Mister701, Good for you!! I have spoken with the people at Rainbow (?) a couple times about taking the course to enable me to work on LS aircraft. I wanted to take the course to enable me to sign off the condition inspection on my own plane. Unfortunately I realized it would have done me no good in regards to letting me do the maintaince on my S7. Since it was a kit, it is classified as AB, that just happens to be eligible for flying in the LS catagory. It ws built by someone else and the LSA Repairmans certificate, from what I understand is only good for factory produced LS aircraft.
I can and have done any maintaince on this plane but I still need an A&P to sign the work off. Finding someone that will do this is the problem living here in the woods.

I will be able to inspect, work on, and sign off work on any E-LSA built by anyone. The deal is that the aircraft kit must be certified by FAA as complying with the E-LSA rule before you buy it, and then built without modification to that approved kit. Only the factory can build an S-LSA but the E-LSA is the same airplane but amateur built.

So.....if your S-7 was originally built and registered in the Experimental, Amateur built category you are right. I can't inspect it. If it was built to plan and registered in the E-LSA category I can. As far as I know now, there is no way to move the aircraft back to the E-LSA category. But, the teachers of the course here tell me that we'll get into some of the options as we go along. For instance, if the kit is built and registered as E-LSA and subsequently modified can it remain an E-LSA? They tell me yes, with reservations. Something about an LOA.

I'll know more in a few weeks.