[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: 14CFR47.9]



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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 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



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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]



    Effective Date Note: At 70 FR 245, Jan. 3, 2005, paragraphs (a), 

(e), and (f) of Sec. 47.9 were amended by revising the references to 

``section 501(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act'', in the first sentence of each 

paragraph to read ``49 U.S.C. 44102'', effective concurrent with the 

date the Cape Town Treaty enters into force with respect to the United 

States.