The Ongoing Lack Of Service From U.S. Federal Agencies
On Friday, 05 May, the Office of the Chief Counsel for the FAA, Mark Nichols, delivered a shocking memorandum to the FAA aircraft registration community. The memo, authored by Alexandra Randazzo, Assistant Chief Counsel, Information Law Division, announced that effective Monday, 15 May 2023, Aeronautical Center, Central Region Counsel (ACC as the division is informally known in Oklahoma City) will no longer issue legal opinions to what it refers to as “external stakeholders” on any subject relating to the registration of aircraft using non-citizen trusts, the registration of aircraft using revocable living trusts, or the recordation of what the ACC calls “aircr