[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR47.37]

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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 47--AIRCRAFT REGISTRATION--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart B--Certificates of Aircraft Registration
 
Sec. 47.37  Aircraft last previously registered in a foreign country.

    (a) A person who is the owner of an aircraft last previously 
registered under the law of a foreign country may register it under this 
part if he--
    (1) Complies with Secs. 47.3, 47.7, 47.8, 47.9, 47.11, 47.13, 47.15, 
and 47.17, as applicable;
    (2) Submits with his application a bill of sale from the foreign 
seller or other evidence satisfactory to the Administrator that he owns 
the aircraft; and
    (3) Submits evidence satisfactory to the Administrator that--
    (i) If the country in which the aircraft was registered has not 
ratified the Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in 
Aircraft (4 U.S.T. 1830), the foreign registration has ended or is 
invalid; or
    (ii) If that country has ratified the convention, the foreign 
registration has ended or is invalid, and each holder of a recorded 
right against the aircraft has been satisfied or has consented to the 
transfer, or ownership in the country of export has been ended by a sale 
in execution under the terms of the convention.
    (b) For the purposes of paragraph (a)(3) of this section, 
satisfactory evidence of termination of the foreign registration may be-
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    (1) A statement, by the official having jurisdiction over the 
national aircraft registry of the foreign country, that the registration 
has ended or is invalid, and showing the official's name and title and 
describing the aircraft by make, model, and serial number; or
    (2) A final judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction 
that determines, under the law of the country concerned, that the 
registration has in fact become invalid.

[Doc. No. 7190, 31 FR 4495, Mar. 17, 1966, as amended by Amdt. 47-20, 44 
FR 61940, Oct. 29,1979]