[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: 14CFR47.9]

[Page 875]
 
                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 47--AIRCRAFT REGISTRATION--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 47.9  Corporations not U.S. citizens.

    (a) Each corporation applying for registration of an aircraft under 
section 501(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act must submit to the FAA Registry with 
the application--
    (1) A certified copy of its certificate of incorporation;
    (2) A certification that it is lawfully qualified to do business in 
one or more States;
    (3) A certification that the aircraft will be based and primarily 
used in the United States; and
    (4) The location where the records required by paragraph (e) of this 
section will be maintained.
    (b) For the purposes of registration, an aircraft is based and 
primarily used in the United States if the flight hours accumulated 
within the United States amount to at least 60 percent of the total 
flight hours of the aircraft during--
    (1) For aircraft registered on or before January 1, 1980, the 6-
calendar month period beginning on January 1, 1980, and each 6-calendar 
month period thereafter; and
    (2) For aircraft registered after January 1, 1980, the period 
consisting in the remainder of the registration month and the succeeding 
6 calendar months and each 6-calendar month period thereafter.
    (c) For the purpose of this section, only those flight hours 
accumulated during non-stop (except for stops in emergencies or for 
purposes of refueling) flight between two points in the United States, 
even if the aircraft is outside of the United States during part of the 
flight, are considered flight hours accumulated within the United 
States.
    (d) In determining compliance with this section, any periods during 
which the aircraft is not validly registered in the United States are 
disregarded.
    (e) The corporation that registers an aircraft pursuant to section 
501(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act shall maintain, and make available for 
inspection by the Administrator upon request, records containing the 
total flight hours in the United States of the aircraft for three 
calendar years after the year in which the flight hours were 
accumulated.
    (f) The corporation that registers an aircraft pursuant to section 
501(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act shall send to the FAA Aircraft Registry, at 
the end of each period of time described in paragraphs (b)(1) and (2) of 
this section, either--
    (1) A signed report containing--
    (i) The total time in service of the airframe as provided in 
Sec. 91.417(a)(2)(i), accumulated during that period; and
    (ii) The total flight hours in the United States of the aircraft 
accumulated during that period; or
    (2) A signed statement that the total flight hours of the aircraft, 
while registered in the United States during that period, have been 
exclusively within the United States.

[Amdt. No. 47-20, 44 FR 61940, Oct. 29, 1979, as amended by Amdt. 47-24, 
54 FR 34330, Aug. 18, 1989]