[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR3.5]

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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 3_GENERAL REQUIREMENTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  3.5  Statements about products, parts, appliances and materials.

    (a) Definitions. The following terms will have the stated meanings 
when used in this section:
    Airworthy means the aircraft conforms to its type design and is in a 
condition for safe operation.
    Product means an aircraft, aircraft engine, or aircraft propeller.
    Record means any writing, drawing, map, recording, tape, film, 
photograph or other documentary material by which information is 
preserved or conveyed in any format, including, but not limited to, 
paper, microfilm, identification plates, stamped marks, bar codes or 
electronic format, and can either be separate from, attached to or 
inscribed on any product, part, appliance or material.
    (b) Prohibition against fraudulent and intentionally false 
statements. When conveying information related to an advertisement or 
sales transaction, no person may make or cause to be made:
    (1) Any fraudulent or intentionally false statement in any record 
about the airworthiness of a type-certificated product, or the 
acceptability of any product, part, appliance, or material for 
installation on a type-certificated product.
    (2) Any fraudulent or intentionally false reproduction or alteration 
of any record about the airworthiness of any type-certificated product, 
or the acceptability of any product, part, appliance, or material for 
installation on a type-certificated product.
    (c) Prohibition against intentionally misleading statements. (1) 
When conveying information related to an advertisement or sales 
transaction, no person may make, or cause to be made, a

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material representation that a type-certificated product is airworthy, 
or that a product, part, appliance, or material is acceptable for 
installation on a type-certificated product in any record if that 
representation is likely to mislead a consumer acting reasonably under 
the circumstances.
    (2) When conveying information related to an advertisement or sales 
transaction, no person may make, or cause to be made, through the 
omission of material information, a representation that a type-
certificated product is airworthy, or that a product, part, appliance, 
or material is acceptable for installation on a type-certificated 
product in any record if that representation is likely to mislead a 
consumer acting reasonably under the circumstances.
    (d) The provisions of Sec.  3.5(b) and Sec.  3.5(c) shall not apply 
if a person can show that the product is airworthy or that the product, 
part, appliance or material is acceptable for installation on a type-
certificated product.

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