Definition
Small aircraft means aircraft of 12,500 pounds or less, maximum certificated takeoff weight.
Source: 14 CFR § 1.1 (verbatim from the Federal Aviation Regulations).
Where This Term Is Used
- 14 CFR § 107.51 — § 107.51 — Operating limitations for small unmanned aircraft
- 14 CFR § 91.1109 — § 91.1109 Aircraft maintenance: Inspection program.
- 14 CFR § 91.1091 — § 91.1091 Qualifications: Flight instructors (aircraft) and flight instructors (simulator).
- 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 § 91.9 — § 91.9 Civil aircraft flight manual, marking, and placard requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.193 — § 91.193 Certificate of authorization for certain Category II operations.
- 14 CFR § 91.23 — § 91.23 Truth-in-leasing clause requirement in leases and conditional sales contracts.
- 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 § 91.1115 — § 91.1115 Inoperable instruments and equipment.
- 14 CFR § 91.1415 — § 91.1415 CAMP: Mechanical reliability reports.
- 14 CFR § 91.1417 — § 91.1417 CAMP: Mechanical interruption summary report.
- 14 CFR § 91.1431 — § 91.1431 CAMP: Continuing analysis and surveillance.
- 14 CFR § 91.1047 — § 91.1047 Drug and alcohol misuse education program.
- 14 CFR § 91.1053 — § 91.1053 Crewmember experience.
- 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 § 91.1015 — § 91.1015 Management specifications.
- 14 CFR § 91.1025 — § 91.1025 Program operating manual contents.
- 14 CFR § 91.1027 — § 91.1027 Recordkeeping.
- 14 CFR § 91.1039 — § 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 § 91.801 — § 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 § 91.609 — § 91.609 Flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders.
- 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 § 91.501 — § 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 § 91.409 — § 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 § 91.225 — § 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 § 91.307 — § 91.307 Parachutes and parachuting.
- 14 CFR § 91.309 — § 91.309 Towing: Gliders and unpowered ultralight vehicles.
- 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 § 91.189 — § 91.189 Category II and III operations: General operating rules.
- 14 CFR § 91.191 — § 91.191 Category II and Category III manual.
- 14 CFR § 91.207 — § 91.207 Emergency locator transmitters.
- 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 § 91.155 — § 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 § 91.175 — § 91.175 Takeoff and landing under IFR.
- 14 CFR § 91.113 — § 91.113 Right-of-way rules: Except water operations.
- 14 CFR § 91.119 — § 91.119 Minimum safe altitudes: General.
- 14 CFR § 91.123 — § 91.123 Compliance with ATC clearances and instructions.
- 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 § 91.135 — § 91.135 Operations in Class A airspace.
- 14 CFR § 91.138 — § 91.138 Temporary flight restrictions in national disaster areas in the State of Hawaii.
- 14 CFR § 91.1 — § 91.1 Applicability.
- 14 CFR § 91.17 — § 91.17 Alcohol or drugs.
- 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.
114 sections reference this term in their FAR Decoded content.