Definition
Aircraft
Device(s) that are used or intended to be used for flight in the air, and when used in air traffic control terminology, may include the flight crew. The term is inclusive of all types, including but not limited to, airplane, glider, lighter‐than‐air, powered‐lift, and rotorcraft.
- See: ICAO term AIRCRAFT
Source: FAA Pilot/Controller Glossary (verbatim from the Federal Aviation Regulations).
Where This Term Is Used
- 14 CFR § 91.1109 — § 91.1109 Aircraft maintenance: Inspection program.
- 14 CFR § 91.1443 — § 91.1443 CAMP: Airworthiness release or aircraft maintenance log entry.
- 14 CFR § 91.1087 — § 91.1087 Approval of aircraft simulators and other training devices.
- 14 CFR § 91.1089 — § 91.1089 Qualifications: Check pilots (aircraft) and check pilots (simulator).
- 14 CFR § 91.1091 — § 91.1091 Qualifications: Flight instructors (aircraft) and flight instructors (simulator).
- 14 CFR § 91.1093 — § 91.1093 Initial and transition training and checking: Check pilots (aircraft), check pilots (simulator).
- 14 CFR § 91.1095 — § 91.1095 Initial and transition training and checking: Flight instructors (aircraft), flight instructors (simulator).
- 14 CFR § 91.1041 — § 91.1041 Aircraft proving and validation tests.
- 14 CFR § 91.713 — § 91.713 Operation of civil aircraft of Cuban registry.
- 14 CFR § 91.715 — § 91.715 Special flight authorizations for foreign civil aircraft.
- 14 CFR § 91.817 — § 91.817 Civil aircraft sonic boom.
- 14 CFR § 91.535 — § 91.535 Stowage of food, beverage, and passenger service equipment during aircraft movement on the surface, takeoff, and landing.
- 14 CFR § 91.703 — § 91.703 Operations of civil aircraft of U.S. registry outside of the United States.
- 14 CFR § 91.711 — § 91.711 Special rules for foreign civil aircraft.
- 14 CFR § 91.317 — § 91.317 Provisionally certificated civil aircraft: Operating limitations.
- 14 CFR § 91.319 — § 91.319 Aircraft having experimental certificates: Operating limitations.
- 14 CFR § 91.325 — § 91.325 Primary category aircraft: Operating limitations.
- 14 CFR § 91.326 — § 91.326 Exception to operating certain aircraft for the purposes of flight training, flightcrew member checking, or flightcrew member testing.
- 14 CFR § 91.327 — § 91.327 Aircraft issued a special airworthiness certificate in the light-sport category: Operating limitations.
- 14 CFR § 91.415 — § 91.415 Changes to aircraft inspection programs.
- 14 CFR § 91.313 — § 91.313 Restricted category civil aircraft: Operating limitations.
- 14 CFR § 91.315 — § 91.315 Limited category civil aircraft: Operating limitations.
- 14 CFR § 91.203 — § 91.203 Civil aircraft: Certifications required.
- 14 CFR § 91.205 — § 91.205 Powered civil aircraft with standard U.S. airworthiness certificates: Instrument and equipment requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.209 — § 91.209 Aircraft lights.
- 14 CFR § 91.145 — § 91.145 Management of aircraft operations in the vicinity of aerial demonstrations and major sporting events.
- 14 CFR § 91.117 — § 91.117 Aircraft speed.
- 14 CFR § 91.5 — § 91.5 Pilot in command of aircraft requiring more than one required pilot.
- 14 CFR § 91.7 — § 91.7 Civil aircraft airworthiness.
- 14 CFR § 91.9 — § 91.9 Civil aircraft flight manual, marking, and placard requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.111 — § 91.111 Operating near other aircraft.
- 14 CFR § 61.321 — § 61.321 — How do I obtain privileges to operate an additional category or class of light-sport aircraft?
- 14 CFR § 61.325 — § 61.325 — How do I obtain privileges to operate an aircraft at an airport within, or in airspace within, Class B, C, and D airspace, or in other airspace with an airport having an operational control tower?
- 14 CFR § 61.316 — § 61.316 — Performance Limits and Design Requirements for Aircraft a Sport Pilot May Operate
- 14 CFR § 61.327 — § 61.327 — Are there specific endorsement requirements to operate an aircraft based on V_H?
- 14 CFR § 61.417 — § 61.417 — Aircraft Category and Class Listed on a Sport Pilot Instructor Certificate
- 14 CFR § 61.329 — § 61.329 — How do I obtain privileges to operate an aircraft at night?
- 14 CFR § 61.58 — § 61.58 — Pilot-in-Command Proficiency Check for Multi-Crew and Turbojet Aircraft
- 14 CFR § 61.63 — § 61.63 — Additional Aircraft Ratings
- 14 CFR § 61.331 — § 61.331 — How do I obtain privileges to operate an aircraft with retractable landing gear or an airplane with a manual controllable pitch propeller?
- 14 CFR § 61.165 — § 61.165 — Additional Aircraft Category and Class Ratings
- 14 CFR § 61.45 — § 61.45 — Practical Tests: Required Aircraft and Equipment
- 14 CFR § 61.8 — § 61.8 — Inapplicability of Unmanned Aircraft Operations
- 14 CFR § 61.9 — § 61.9 — Inapplicability of Simplified Flight Controls Aircraft Experience Credit
- 14 CFR § 91.23 — § 91.23 Truth-in-leasing clause requirement in leases and conditional sales contracts.
- 14 CFR § 91.101 — § 91.101 Applicability.
- 14 CFR § 91.103 — § 91.103 Preflight action.
- 14 CFR § 91.1715 — § 91.1715 Currency requirements and flight review.
- 14 CFR § 91.1505 — § 91.1505 Repairs assessment for pressurized fuselages.
- 14 CFR § 91.1507 — § 91.1507 Fuel tank system inspection program.
- 14 CFR § 91.1603 — § 91.1603 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 112—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Territory and Airspace of Libya.
- 14 CFR § 91.1605 — § 91.1605 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 77—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Baghdad Flight Information Region (FIR) (ORBB).
- 14 CFR § 91.1609 — § 91.1609 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 114—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Damascus Flight Information Region (FIR) (OSTT).
- 14 CFR § 91.1611 — § 91.1611 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 115—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in Specified Areas of the Sanaa Flight Information Region (FIR) (OYSC).
- 14 CFR § 91.1613 — § 91.1613 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 107—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Territory and Airspace of Somalia.
- 14 CFR § 91.1615 — § 91.1615 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 79—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Pyongyang Flight Information Region (FIR) (ZKKP).
- 14 CFR § 91.1617 — § 91.1617 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 117—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Tehran Flight Information Region (FIR) (OIIX).
- 14 CFR § 91.1619 — § 91.1619 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 119—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Kabul Flight Information Region (FIR) (OAKX).
- 14 CFR § 91.1705 — § 91.1705 Required pilot training.
- 14 CFR § 91.1111 — § 91.1111 Maintenance training.
- 14 CFR § 91.1115 — § 91.1115 Inoperable instruments and equipment.
- 14 CFR § 91.1411 — § 91.1411 Continuous airworthiness maintenance program use by fractional ownership program manager.
- 14 CFR § 91.1413 — § 91.1413 CAMP: Responsibility for airworthiness.
- 14 CFR § 91.1415 — § 91.1415 CAMP: Mechanical reliability reports.
- 14 CFR § 91.1417 — § 91.1417 CAMP: Mechanical interruption summary report.
- 14 CFR § 91.1423 — § 91.1423 CAMP: Maintenance organization.
- 14 CFR § 91.1425 — § 91.1425 CAMP: Maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alteration programs.
- 14 CFR § 91.1427 — § 91.1427 CAMP: Manual requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.1429 — § 91.1429 CAMP: Required inspection personnel.
- 14 CFR § 91.1431 — § 91.1431 CAMP: Continuing analysis and surveillance.
- 14 CFR § 91.1433 — § 91.1433 CAMP: Maintenance and preventive maintenance training program.
- 14 CFR § 91.1437 — § 91.1437 CAMP: Authority to perform and approve maintenance.
- 14 CFR § 91.1439 — § 91.1439 CAMP: Maintenance recording requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.1441 — § 91.1441 CAMP: Transfer of maintenance records.
- 14 CFR § 91.1079 — § 91.1079 Training program: Curriculum.
- 14 CFR § 91.1081 — § 91.1081 Crewmember training requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.1083 — § 91.1083 Crewmember emergency training.
- 14 CFR § 91.1101 — § 91.1101 Pilots: Initial, transition, and upgrade ground training.
- 14 CFR § 91.1103 — § 91.1103 Pilots: Initial, transition, upgrade, requalification, and differences flight training.
- 14 CFR § 91.1105 — § 91.1105 Flight attendants: Initial and transition ground training.
- 14 CFR § 91.1107 — § 91.1107 Recurrent training.
- 14 CFR § 91.1045 — § 91.1045 Additional equipment requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.1047 — § 91.1047 Drug and alcohol misuse education program.
- 14 CFR § 91.1049 — § 91.1049 Personnel.
- 14 CFR § 91.1053 — § 91.1053 Crewmember experience.
- 14 CFR § 91.1055 — § 91.1055 Pilot operating limitations and pairing requirement.
- 14 CFR § 91.1057 — § 91.1057 Flight, duty and rest time requirements: All crewmembers.
- 14 CFR § 91.1061 — § 91.1061 Augmented flight crews.
- 14 CFR § 91.1062 — § 91.1062 Duty periods and rest requirements: Flight attendants.
- 14 CFR § 91.1063 — § 91.1063 Testing and training: Applicability and terms used.
- 14 CFR § 91.1065 — § 91.1065 Initial and recurrent pilot testing requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.1069 — § 91.1069 Flight crew: Instrument proficiency check requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.1073 — § 91.1073 Training program: General.
- 14 CFR § 91.1009 — § 91.1009 Clarification of operational control.
- 14 CFR § 91.1011 — § 91.1011 Operational control responsibilities and delegation.
- 14 CFR § 91.1013 — § 91.1013 Operational control briefing and acknowledgment.
- 14 CFR § 91.1015 — § 91.1015 Management specifications.
- 14 CFR § 91.1025 — § 91.1025 Program operating manual contents.
- 14 CFR § 91.1027 — § 91.1027 Recordkeeping.
- 14 CFR § 91.1029 — § 91.1029 Flight scheduling and locating requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.1033 — § 91.1033 Operating information required.
- 14 CFR § 91.1035 — § 91.1035 Passenger awareness.
- 14 CFR § 91.1039 — § 91.1039 IFR takeoff, approach and landing minimums.
- 14 CFR § 91.903 — § 91.903 Policy and procedures.
- 14 CFR § 91.905 — § 91.905 List of rules subject to waivers.
- 14 CFR § 91.1001 — § 91.1001 Applicability.
- 14 CFR § 91.1005 — § 91.1005 Prohibitions and limitations.
- 14 CFR § 91.1007 — § 91.1007 Flights conducted under part 121 or part 135 of this chapter.
- 14 CFR § 91.801 — § 91.801 Applicability: Relation to part 36.
- 14 CFR § 91.815 — § 91.815 Agricultural and fire fighting airplanes: Noise operating limitations.
- 14 CFR § 91.818 — § 91.818 Special flight authorization to exceed Mach 1.
- 14 CFR § 91.601 — § 91.601 Applicability.
- 14 CFR § 91.609 — § 91.609 Flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders.
- 14 CFR § 91.611 — § 91.611 Authorization for ferry flight with one engine inoperative.
- 14 CFR § 91.701 — § 91.701 Applicability.
- 14 CFR § 91.702 — § 91.702 Persons on board.
- 14 CFR § 91.706 — § 91.706 Operations within airspace designed as Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum Airspace.
- 14 CFR § 91.707 — § 91.707 Flights between Mexico or Canada and the United States.
- 14 CFR § 91.709 — § 91.709 Operations to Cuba.
- 14 CFR § 91.419 — § 91.419 Transfer of maintenance records.
- 14 CFR § 91.421 — § 91.421 Rebuilt engine maintenance records.
- 14 CFR § 91.501 — § 91.501 Applicability.
- 14 CFR § 91.511 — § 91.511 Communication and navigation equipment for overwater operations.
- 14 CFR § 91.517 — § 91.517 Passenger information.
- 14 CFR § 91.527 — § 91.527 Operating in icing conditions.
- 14 CFR § 91.321 — § 91.321 Carriage of candidates in elections.
- 14 CFR § 91.323 — § 91.323 Increased maximum certificated weights for certain airplanes operated in Alaska.
- 14 CFR § 91.401 — § 91.401 Applicability.
- 14 CFR § 91.403 — § 91.403 General.
- 14 CFR § 91.405 — § 91.405 Maintenance required.
- 14 CFR § 91.407 — § 91.407 Operation after maintenance, preventive maintenance, rebuilding, or alteration.
- 14 CFR § 91.409 — § 91.409 Inspections.
- 14 CFR § 91.413 — § 91.413 ATC transponder tests and inspections.
- 14 CFR § 91.417 — § 91.417 Maintenance records.
- 14 CFR § 91.213 — § 91.213 Inoperative instruments and equipment.
- 14 CFR § 91.215 — § 91.215 ATC transponder and altitude reporting equipment and use.
- 14 CFR § 91.217 — § 91.217 Data correspondence between automatically reported pressure altitude data and the pilot’s altitude reference.
- 14 CFR § 91.219 — § 91.219 Altitude alerting system or device: Turbojet-powered civil airplanes.
- 14 CFR § 91.221 — § 91.221 Traffic alert and collision avoidance system equipment and use.
- 14 CFR § 91.225 — § 91.225 Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out equipment and use.
- 14 CFR § 91.227 — § 91.227 Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out equipment performance requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.303 — § 91.303 Aerobatic flight.
- 14 CFR § 91.305 — § 91.305 Flight test areas.
- 14 CFR § 91.307 — § 91.307 Parachutes and parachuting.
- 14 CFR § 91.309 — § 91.309 Towing: Gliders and unpowered ultralight vehicles.
- 14 CFR § 91.311 — § 91.311 Towing: Other than under § 91.309.
- 14 CFR § 91.176 — § 91.176 Straight-in landing operations below DA/DH or MDA using an enhanced flight vision system (EFVS) under IFR.
- 14 CFR § 91.177 — § 91.177 Minimum altitudes for IFR operations.
- 14 CFR § 91.179 — § 91.179 IFR cruising altitude or flight level.
- 14 CFR § 91.180 — § 91.180 Operations within airspace designated as Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum airspace.
- 14 CFR § 91.181 — § 91.181 Course to be flown.
- 14 CFR § 91.183 — § 91.183 IFR communications.
- 14 CFR § 91.187 — § 91.187 Operation under IFR in controlled airspace: Malfunction reports.
- 14 CFR § 91.189 — § 91.189 Category II and III operations: General operating rules.
- 14 CFR § 91.191 — § 91.191 Category II and Category III manual.
- 14 CFR § 91.193 — § 91.193 Certificate of authorization for certain Category II operations.
- 14 CFR § 91.207 — § 91.207 Emergency locator transmitters.
- 14 CFR § 91.211 — § 91.211 Supplemental oxygen.
- 14 CFR § 91.143 — § 91.143 Flight limitation in the proximity of space flight operations.
- 14 CFR § 91.144 — § 91.144 Temporary restriction on flight operations during abnormally high barometric pressure conditions.
- 14 CFR § 91.146 — § 91.146 Passenger-carrying flights for the benefit of a charitable, nonprofit, or community event.
- 14 CFR § 91.147 — § 91.147 Passenger-carrying flights for compensation or hire.
- 14 CFR § 91.153 — § 91.153 VFR flight plan: Information required.
- 14 CFR § 91.155 — § 91.155 Basic VFR weather minimums.
- 14 CFR § 91.157 — § 91.157 Special VFR weather minimums.
- 14 CFR § 91.159 — § 91.159 VFR cruising altitude or flight level.
- 14 CFR § 91.161 — § 91.161 Special awareness training required for pilots flying under visual flight rules within a 60-nautical mile radius of the Washington, DC VOR/DME.
- 14 CFR § 91.167 — § 91.167 Fuel requirements for flight in IFR conditions.
- 14 CFR § 91.169 — § 91.169 IFR flight plan: Information required.
- 14 CFR § 91.171 — § 91.171 VOR equipment check for IFR operations.
- 14 CFR § 91.173 — § 91.173 ATC clearance and flight plan required.
- 14 CFR § 91.175 — § 91.175 Takeoff and landing under IFR.
- 14 CFR § 91.113 — § 91.113 Right-of-way rules: Except water operations.
- 14 CFR § 91.115 — § 91.115 Right-of-way rules: Water operations.
- 14 CFR § 91.119 — § 91.119 Minimum safe altitudes: General.
- 14 CFR § 91.121 — § 91.121 Altimeter settings.
- 14 CFR § 91.123 — § 91.123 Compliance with ATC clearances and instructions.
- 14 CFR § 91.125 — § 91.125 ATC light signals.
- 14 CFR § 91.126 — § 91.126 Operating on or in the vicinity of an airport in Class G airspace.
- 14 CFR § 91.127 — § 91.127 Operating on or in the vicinity of an airport in Class E airspace.
- 14 CFR § 91.129 — § 91.129 Operations in Class D airspace.
- 14 CFR § 91.130 — § 91.130 Operations in Class C airspace.
- 14 CFR § 91.131 — § 91.131 Operations in Class B airspace.
- 14 CFR § 91.133 — § 91.133 Restricted and prohibited areas.
- 14 CFR § 91.135 — § 91.135 Operations in Class A airspace.
- 14 CFR § 91.137 — § 91.137 Temporary flight restrictions in the vicinity of disaster/hazard areas.
- 14 CFR § 91.138 — § 91.138 Temporary flight restrictions in national disaster areas in the State of Hawaii.
- 14 CFR § 91.139 — § 91.139 Emergency air traffic rules.
- 14 CFR § 91.141 — § 91.141 Flight restrictions in the proximity of the Presidential and other parties.
- 14 CFR § 91.1 — § 91.1 Applicability.
- 14 CFR § 91.3 — § 91.3 Responsibility and authority of the pilot in command.
- 14 CFR § 91.11 — § 91.11 Prohibition on interference with crewmembers.
- 14 CFR § 91.13 — § 91.13 Careless or reckless operation.
- 14 CFR § 91.15 — § 91.15 Dropping objects.
- 14 CFR § 91.17 — § 91.17 Alcohol or drugs.
- 14 CFR § 91.19 — § 91.19 Carriage of narcotic drugs, marihuana, and depressant or stimulant drugs or substances.
- 14 CFR § 91.21 — § 91.21 Portable electronic devices.
- 14 CFR § 91.105 — § 91.105 Flight crewmembers at stations.
- 14 CFR § 91.107 — § 91.107 Use of safety belts, shoulder harnesses, and child restraint systems.
- 14 CFR § 91.108 — § 91.108 Use of supplemental restraint systems.
- 14 CFR § 91.109 — § 91.109 Flight instruction; Simulated instrument flight and certain flight tests.
- 14 CFR § 61.47 — § 61.47 — Status of an Examiner Who Is Authorized by the Administrator to Conduct Practical Tests
- 14 CFR § 61.49 — § 61.49 — Retesting After Failure
- 14 CFR § 61.51 — § 61.51 — Pilot Logbooks
- 14 CFR § 61.52 — § 61.52 — Use of Aeronautical Experience Obtained in Ultralight Vehicles
- 14 CFR § 61.53 — § 61.53 — Prohibition on Operations During Medical Deficiency
- 14 CFR § 61.55 — § 61.55 — Second-in-Command Qualifications
- 14 CFR § 61.56 — § 61.56 — Flight Review
- 14 CFR § 61.57 — § 61.57 — Recent Flight Experience: Pilot in Command
209 sections reference this term in their FAR Decoded content.