



However, I have seen airworthiness certificates on the ceiling just above the entrance door and on the wall of the passageway leading to the cockpit. Where do most major American air carriers attach and display their aircraft's Airworthiness Certificate?ĪNSWER: Most of them are on the inside of the cockpit door. Special airworthiness certificates are primary, restricted, limited, light-sport, and provisional airworthiness certificates, special flight permits, and experimental certificates. A passenger would be able to see the airworthiness certificate when boarding if they were to look. In most cases you may have noticed that the cockpit door is open during the passenger boarding process. Instead, it requires that the certificate be legible to either the passengers or the crew.” The regulation does not require the certificate to be legible to both the passengers and the crew. FAR 91.203 (b) states 'No person may operate a civil aircraft unless the airworthiness certificate required by paragraph (a) of this section or a special flight authorization issued under 91.715 is displayed at the cabin or cockpit entrance so that it is legible to passengers or crew. “Compliance can indeed be achieved by hanging the airworthiness certificate on the side of the cockpit door facing into the cockpit so that only the flight crew can see the certificate when the door is closed. The rule at that time was FAR 91.27(b) which became FAR 91.203 (b) after the re-codification of FAR 91 in the mid 1990’s. There was a legal interpretation of this rule by the FAA Associate Chief Council in 1990. civil certification process that starts with the Category of the aircraft, which in turn defines the Type Certification Basis (TCB) within a certification specification, the military certification process is defined by the military Airworthiness requirements which are determined by air system design, roles and missions. Is this acceptable to the FAA?ĪNSWER: Yes to both of the above questions. If it is attached to the back of the door it will not be visible to any of the passengers, only to the flight crew when they look at the back of the door. With the above regulation in mind is it acceptable to display the Airworthiness Certificate only on the inside / back side of the cockpit door of a typical passenger aircraft such as a Boeing 777 operating under FAR Part 121? The Scaled Composite civil spacecraft do, however, possess experimental Airworthiness Certificates and Registrations.FAR 91.203(b) states "No person may operate a civil aircraft unless the airworthiness certificate required by paragraph (a) of this section or a special flight authorization issued under § 91.715 is displayed at the cabin or cockpit entrance so that it is legible to passengers or crew." You are correct that the space shuttle, a public aircraft, would not be required to have an AWC or registration, as is the case for military and other public aircraft. What led to the assumption that he was interested only in Part 23/CAR 3 airplanes and had no interest in the thousands of Luscombes, Taylorcraft, Stearmans and other airplanes certified under CAR 4a? The lack of any inquiry concerning displaying the AWC by Gary would lead to an assumption that he had no interest in whether he could display a copy of the AWC. International agreements and arrangements.

Operational airworthiness, standards and procedures, aircraft maintenance engineer licensing and training. His use of the word “aircraft” seems to imply that he is interested Airworthiness Certificates issued to the whole family of aircraft, not just Part 23/CAR3 airplanes. Standards for aeronautical products designed and used in Canada, technical guidance for aerospace companies, service difficulty reporting. I would love to hear the logical thought process that produced that assumption. You ended up with your assumption “Gary wants to know if he can display a copy of the Airworthiness Certificate or must he display the original? Oh, and by the way, he is only interested in FAR23/CAR3 airplanes?.” A standard certificate of airworthiness is a permit for commercial passenger or cargo operation, issued for an aircraft by the national aviation authority. You started with “When must an aircraft be issued a new AWC?”
