[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: 14CFR43.1]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 43_MAINTENANCE, PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE, REBUILDING, AND ALTERATION

--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 43.1  Applicability.









Sec.

43.1 Applicability.

43.2 Records of overhaul and rebuilding.

43.3 Persons authorized to perform maintenance, preventive maintenance, 

          rebuilding, and alterations.

43.5 Approval for return to service after maintenance, preventive 

          maintenance, rebuilding, or alteration.

43.7 Persons authorized to approve aircraft, airframes, aircraft 

          engines, propellers, appliances, or component parts for return 

          to service after maintenance, preventive maintenance, 

          rebuilding, or alteration.

43.9 Content, form, and disposition of maintenance, preventive 

          maintenance, rebuilding, and alteration records (except 

          inspections performed in accordance with part 91, part 123, 

          part 125, Sec. 135.411(a)(1), and Sec. 135.419 of this 

          chapter).

43.10 Disposition of life-limited aircraft parts.

43.11 Content, form, and disposition of records for inspections 

          conducted under parts 91 and 125 and Sec. Sec. 135.411(a)(1) 

          and 135.419 of this chapter.

43.12 Maintenance records: Falsification, reproduction, or alteration.

43.13 Performance rules (general).

43.15 Additional performance rules for inspections.

43.16 Airworthiness Limitations.



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43.17 Maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alterations performed on 

          U.S. aeronautical products by certain Canadian persons.



Appendix A to Part 43--Major Alterations, Major Repairs, and Preventive 

          Maintenance

Appendix B to Part 43--Recording of Major Repairs and Major Alterations

Appendix C to Part 43 [Reserved]

Appendix D to Part 43--Scope and Detail of Items (as Applicable to the 

          Particular Aircraft) to be Included in Annual and 100-Hour 

          Inspections

Appendix E to Part 43--Altimeter System Test and Inspection

Appendix F to Part 43--ATC Transponder Tests and Inspections



    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701, 44703, 44705, 44707, 

44711, 44713, 44717, 44725.



    Source: Docket No. 1993, 29 FR 5451, Apr. 23, 1964, unless otherwise 

noted.



    Editorial Note: For miscellaneous technical amendments to this part 

43, see Amdt. 43-3, 31 FR 3336, Mar. 3, 1966, and Amdt. 43-6, 31 FR 

9211, July 6, 1966.





    (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (d) of this section, 

this part prescribes rules governing the maintenance, preventive 

maintenance, rebuilding, and alteration of any--

    (1) Aircraft having a U.S. airworthiness certificate;

    (2) Foreign-registered civil aircraft used in common carriage or 

carriage of mail under the provisions of Part 121 or 135 of this 

chapter; and

    (3) Airframe, aircraft engines, propellers, appliances, and 

component parts of such aircraft.

    (b) This part does not apply to any aircraft for which the FAA has 

issued an experimental certificate, unless the FAA has previously issued 

a different kind of airworthiness certificate for that aircraft.

    (c) This part applies to all life-limited parts that are removed 

from a type certificated product, segregated, or controlled as provided 

in Sec. 43.10.

    (d) This part applies to any aircraft issued a special airworthiness 

certificate in the light-sport category except:

    (1) The repair or alteration form specified in Sec. Sec. 43.5(b) 

and 43.9(d) is not required to be completed for products not produced 

under an FAA approval;

    (2) Major repairs and major alterations for products not produced 

under an FAA approval are not required to be recorded in accordance with 

appendix B of this part; and

    (3) The listing of major alterations and major repairs specified in 

paragraphs (a) and (b) of appendix A of this part is not applicable to 

products not produced under an FAA approval.



[Doc. No. 1993, 29 FR 5451, Apr. 23, 1964, as amended by Amdt. 43-23, 47 

FR 41084, Sept. 16, 1982; Amdt. 43-37, 66 FR 21066, Apr. 27, 2001; Amdt. 

43-38, 67 FR 2109, Jan. 15, 2002; Amdt. 43-39, 69 FR 44863, July 27, 

2004]