[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: 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]