[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: 14CFR47.5]

[Page 910]
 
                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 47_AIRCRAFT REGISTRATION--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec.  47.5  Applicants.

    (a) A person who wishes to register an aircraft in the United States 
must submit an Application for Aircraft Registration under this part.
    (b) An aircraft may be registered only by and in the legal name of 
its owner.
    (c) 49 U.S.C. 44103(c), provides that registration is not evidence 
of ownership of aircraft in any proceeding in which ownership by a 
particular person is in issue. The FAA does not issue any certificate of 
ownership or endorse any information with respect to ownership on a 
Certificate of Aircraft Registration. The FAA issues a Certificate of 
Aircraft Registration to the person who appears to be the owner on the 
basis of the evidence of ownership submitted pursuant to Sec.  47.11 
with the Application for Aircraft Registration, or recorded at the FAA 
Aircraft Registry.
    (d) In this part, ``owner'' includes a buyer in possession, a 
bailee, or a lessee of an aircraft under a contract of conditional sale, 
and the assignee of that person.

[Amdt. 47-20, 44 FR 61939, Oct. 29, 1979, as amended by Amdt. 47-27, 70 
FR 244, Jan. 3, 2005]