[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: 14CFR43.2]

[Page 888]
 
                     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.  43.2  Records of overhaul and rebuilding.

    (a) No person may describe in any required maintenance entry or form 
an aircraft, airframe, aircraft engine, propeller, appliance, or 
component part as being overhauled unless--
    (1) Using methods, techniques, and practices acceptable to the 
Administrator, it has been disassembled, cleaned, inspected, repaired as 
necessary, and reassembled; and
    (2) It has been tested in accordance with approved standards and 
technical data, or in accordance with current standards and technical 
data accepteble to the Administrator, which have been developed and 
documented by the holder of the type certificate, supplemental type 
certificate, or a material, part, process, or applicance approval under 
Sec.  21.305 of this chapter.
    (b) No person may describe in any required maintenance entry or form 
an aircraft, airframe, aircraft engine, propeller, appliance, or 
component part as being rebuilt unless it has been disassembled, 
cleaned, inspected, repaired as necessary, reassembled, and tested to 
the same tolerances and limits as a new item, using either new parts or 
used parts that either conform to new part tolerances and limits or to 
approved oversized or undersized dimensions.

[Amdt. 43-23, 47 FR 41084, Sept. 16, 1982]