[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 1]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR31.71]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 31_AIRWORTHINESS STANDARDS: MANNED FREE BALLOONS--Table of Contents

 

                           Subpart E_Equipment

 

Sec. 31.71  Function and installation.





    (a) Each item of installed equipment must--

    (1) Be of a kind and design appropriate to its intended function;

    (2) Be permanently and legibly marked or, if the item is too small 

to mark, tagged as to its identification, function, or operating 

limitations, or any applicable combination of those factors;

    (3) Be installed according to limitations specified for that 

equipment; and

    (4) Function properly when installed.

    (b) No item of installed equipment, when performing its function, 

may affect the function of any other equipment so as to create an unsafe 

condition.

    (c) The equipment, systems, and installations must be designed to 

prevent hazards to the balloon in the event of a probable malfunction or 

failure.



[Amdt. 31-4, 45 FR 60180, Sept. 11, 1980]