Definition
Foreign air commerce means the carriage by aircraft of persons or property for compensation or hire, or the carriage of mail by aircraft, or the operation or navigation of aircraft in the conduct or furtherance of a business or vocation, in commerce between a place in the United States and any place outside thereof; whether such commerce moves wholly by aircraft or partly by aircraft and partly by other forms of transportation.
Source: 14 CFR § 1.1 (verbatim from the Federal Aviation Regulations).
Where This Term Is Used
- 14 CFR § 91.865 — § 91.865 Phased compliance for operators with base level.
- 14 CFR § 91.801 — § 91.801 Applicability: Relation to part 36.
- 14 CFR § 91.855 — § 91.855 Entry and nonaddition rule.
3 sections reference this term in their FAR Decoded content.