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Federal Aviation Administration

Small Airplanes

Regulations, Policies & Guidance

Updated: 1:24 pm ET June 19, 2008

Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations

  • Part 21, Certification Procedures for Products and Parts
  • Part 23, Airworthiness Standards: Normal, Utility, Acrobatic, and Commuter Category Airplanes
  • Part 34, Fuel Venting and Exhaust Emission Requirements for Turbine4 Engine Powered Airplanes
  • Part 36, Noise Standards: Aircraft Type and Airworthiness Certification
  • Part 43, Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Rebuilding, and Alteration

NPRM 64-17, Airworthiness Standards: Normal, Utility, and Acrobatic Airplanes, provides a complete table of Civil Air Regulations (CAR) Part 3 correlated to 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 23.

Advisory Circulars

Guidance

Policy

  • PS-ACE100-2001-006, Static Strength Substantiation of Composite Airplane Structure
  • PS-ACE100-2001-004, Guidance for Reviewing Certification Plans to Address Human Factors for Certification of Part 23 Small Airplanes
  • PS-ACE100-2002-003, Standardization of Application Regarding Hazardous Misleading Heading Information for Attitude-Heading Reference Systems (AHRS)
  • PS-ACE100-2002-005, Circuit Breakers and Fuses
  • PS-ACE100-2002-007, Pitot Heat Indication Systems
  • PS-ACE100-2005-10039, Standardization and Clarification of Application of 14 CFR Part 23, §§ 23.1301 and 23.1309, Regarding Environmental Qualification
  • PS-ACE100-2005-50001, Final Policy Statement on Applying Advisory Circular 20-152, "RTCA, Inc., Document RTCA/DO-254, Design Assurance Guidance for Airborne Electronic Hardware," to Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 23 Aircraft

Technical Standard Orders (TSO)

  • TSO-C22g, Safety Belts
  • TSO-C39c, 9g Transport Airplane Seats Certified by Static Testing
  • TSO-C114, Torso Restraint Systems
  • TSO-C127a, Rotorcraft, Transport Airplane, and Normal and Utility Airplane Seating Systems

1:24 pm ET June 19, 2008