Pretty sure the US requires planes to be maintained according to the manufacturers requirements in order to use US airports.
I suppose you can travel to your hearts content in africa and Asia, but you wont be able to land in Europe or NA.
I suppose you can travel to your hearts content in africa and Asia, but you wont be able to land in Europe or NA.
In the US, the FAA as minimal-to-no restrictions on the sorts of things you're allowed to use to lift yourself into the air, provided you take steps to make sure no one other than you is harmed by your decisions.
Well there's the rub, isn't it?
What goes up must come down and the chance of the latter happening uncontrolled is a lot higher with engines outside their maintenance window.
Better hope it's not your house it crashes down on :)
The chance is pretty low yes but that's exactly because of all these regulations and maintenance overhauls.
Yes, experimental plane regulations deal with exactly this. There is airspace that is closed to them, you cannot simply fly them over your local downtown area.
Lots of Americans live in very rural, remote areas and several own their own airstrips far from any populated areas. If you're crop-dusting your own fields on a 5000-acre ranch then no one cares when your plane was last serviced aside from the pilot.