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T
ABLE
C
TO
P
ART
117—F
LIGHT
D
UTY
P
ERIOD
: A
UGMENTED
O
PERATIONS
Scheduled time of start (acclimated time)
Maximum flight duty period (hours) based on rest facility and
number of pilots
Class 1
rest facility
Class 2
rest facility
Class 3
rest facility
3 pilots
4 pilots
3 pilots
4 pilots
3 pilots
4 pilots
0000–0559 ....................................................................
15
17
14
15.5
13
13.5
0600–0659 ....................................................................
16
18.5
15
16.5
14
14.5
0700–1259 ....................................................................
17
19
16.5
18
15
15.5
1300–1659 ....................................................................
16
18.5
15
16.5
14
14.5
1700–2359 ....................................................................
15
17
14
15.5
13
13.5
PART 118
[
RESERVED
]
PART 119—CERTIFICATION: AIR
CARRIERS AND COMMERCIAL
OPERATORS
Subpart A—General
Sec.
119.1
Applicability.
119.3
[Reserved]
119.5
Certifications, authorizations, and
prohibitions.
119.7
Operations specifications.
119.8
Safety Management Systems.
119.9
Use of business names.
Subpart B—Applicability of Operating Re-
quirements to Different Kinds of Oper-
ations Under Parts 121, 125, and 135 of
This Chapter
119.21
Commercial operators engaged in
intrastate common carriage and direct
air carriers.
119.23
Operators engaged in passenger-car-
rying operations, cargo operations, or
both with airplanes or powered-lift when
common carriage is not involved.
119.25
Rotorcraft operations: Direct air car-
riers and commercial operators.
Subpart C—Certification, Operations Spec-
ifications, and Certain Other Require-
ments for Operations Conducted
Under Part 121 or Part 135 of This
Chapter
119.31
Applicability.
119.33
General requirements.
119.35
Certificate application requirements
for all operators.
119.36
Additional certificate application re-
quirements for commercial operators.
119.37
Contents of an Air Carrier Certificate
or Operating Certificate.
119.39
Issuing or denying a certificate.
119.41
Amending a certificate.
119.43
Certificate holder’s duty to maintain
operations specifications.
119.45
[Reserved]
119.47
Maintaining a principal base of oper-
ations, main operations base, and main
maintenance base; change of address.
119.49
Contents of operations specifications.
119.51
Amending operations specifications.
119.53
Wet leasing of aircraft and other ar-
rangements for transportation by air.
119.55
Obtaining deviation authority to per-
form operations under a U.S. military
contract.
119.57
Obtaining deviation authority to per-
form an emergency operation.
119.59
Conducting tests and inspections.
119.61
Duration and surrender of certificate
and operations specifications.
119.63
Recency of operation.
119.65
Management personnel required for
operations conducted under part 121 of
this chapter.
119.67
Management personnel: Qualifica-
tions for operations conducted under
part 121 of this chapter.
119.69
Management personnel required for
operations conducted under part 135 of
this chapter.
119.71
Management personnel: Qualifica-
tions for operations conducted under
part 135 of this chapter.
119.73
Employment of former FAA employ-
ees.
A
UTHORITY
: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40101,
40102, 40103, 40113, 44105, 44106, 44111, 44701–
44717, 44722, 44901, 44903, 44904, 44906, 44912,
44914, 44936, 44938, 46103, 46105; sec. 215, Pub.
L. 111–216, 124 Stat. 2348.
S
OURCE
: Docket No. 28154, 60 FR 65913, Dec.
20, 1995, unless otherwise noted.
Subpart A—General
§ 119.1 Applicability.
(a) This part applies to each person
operating or intending to operate civil
aircraft—
(1) As an air carrier or commercial
operator, or both, in air commerce; or
(2) When common carriage is not in-
volved, in operations of any U.S.-reg-
istered civil airplane or powered-lift
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§ 119.1
with a seat configuration of 20 or more
passengers, or a maximum payload ca-
pacity of 6,000 pounds or more; or
(3) When noncommon carriage is in-
volved, except as provided in § 91.501(b)
of this chapter, or in private carriage
for compensation or hire, in operations
of any U.S.-registered civil airplane or
powered-lift with a passenger-seat con-
figuration of less than 20 seats and a
payload capacity of less than 6,000
pounds.
(b) This part prescribes—
(1) The types of air operator certifi-
cates issued by the Federal Aviation
Administration, including air carrier
certificates and operating certificates;
(2) The certification requirements an
operator must meet in order to obtain
and hold a certificate authorizing oper-
ations under part 121, 125, or 135 of this
chapter and operations specifications
for each kind of operation to be con-
ducted and each class and size of air-
craft to be operated under part 121 or
135 of this chapter;
(3) The requirements an operator
must meet to conduct operations under
part 121, 125, or 135 of this chapter and
in operating each class and size of air-
craft authorized in its operations speci-
fications;
(4) Requirements affecting wet leas-
ing of aircraft and other arrangements
for transportation by air;
(5) Requirements for obtaining devi-
ation authority to perform operations
under a military contract and obtain-
ing deviation authority to perform an
emergency operation; and
(6) Requirements for management
personnel for operations conducted
under part 121 or part 135 of this chap-
ter.
(c) Persons subject to this part must
comply with the other requirements of
this chapter, except where those re-
quirements are modified by or where
additional requirements are imposed
by part 119, 121, 125, or 135 of this chap-
ter.
(d) This part does not govern oper-
ations conducted under part 91, subpart
K (when common carriage is not in-
volved) nor does it govern operations
conducted under part 129, 133, 137, or
139 of this chapter.
(e) Except for operations when com-
mon carriage is not involved conducted
with any airplane or powered-lift hav-
ing a passenger-seat configuration of 20
seats or more, excluding any required
crewmember seat, or a payload capac-
ity of 6,000 pounds or more, this part
does not apply to—
(1) Student instruction;
(2) Nonstop Commercial Air Tours
that occur in an airplane, powered-lift,
or rotorcraft having a standard air-
worthiness certificate and passenger-
seat configuration of 30 seats or fewer
and a maximum payload capacity of
7,500 pounds or less that begin and end
at the same airport, and are conducted
within a 25-statute mile radius of that
airport, in compliance with the Letter
of Authorization issued under § 91.147 of
this chapter. For nonstop Commercial
Air Tours conducted in accordance
with part 136, subpart B, of this chap-
ter, National Parks Air Tour Manage-
ment, the requirements of this part
apply unless excepted in § 136.37(g)(2).
For Nonstop Commercial Air Tours
conducted in the vicinity of the Grand
Canyon National Park, Arizona, the re-
quirements of SFAR 50–2, part 93, sub-
part U, of the chapter and this part, as
applicable, apply.
(3) Ferry or training flights;
(4) Aerial work operations, includ-
ing—
(i) Crop dusting, seeding, spraying,
and bird chasing;
(ii) Banner towing;
(iii) Aerial photography or survey;
(iv) Fire fighting;
(v) Powered-lift or rotorcraft oper-
ations in construction or repair work
(but part 119 of this chapter does apply
to transportation to and from the site
of operations); and
(vi) Powerline or pipeline patrol;
(5) Sightseeing flights conducted in
hot air balloons or gliders;
(6) Nonstop flights conducted within
a 25-statute-mile radius of the airport
of takeoff carrying persons or objects
for the purpose of conducting inten-
tional parachute operations.
(7) Powered-lift or rotorcraft flights
conducted within a 25 statute mile ra-
dius of the airport of takeoff if—
(i) Not more than two passengers are
carried in the aircraft in addition to
the required flightcrew;
(ii) Each flight is made under day
VFR conditions;
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(iii) The aircraft used is certificated
in the standard category and complies
with the 100-hour inspection require-
ments of part 91 of this chapter;
(iv) The operator notifies the respon-
sible Flight Standards office at least 72
hours before each flight and furnishes
any essential information that the of-
fice requests;
(v) The number of flights does not ex-
ceed a total of six in any calendar year;
(vi) Each flight has been approved by
the Administrator; and
(vii) Cargo is not carried in or on the
aircraft;
(8) Operations conducted under part
133 of this chapter or 375 of this title;
(9) Emergency mail service con-
ducted under 49 U.S.C. 41906;
(10) Operations conducted under the
provisions of § 91.321 of this chapter; or
(11) Small UAS operations conducted
under part 107 of this chapter.
[Doc. No. 28154, 60 FR 65913, Dec. 20, 1995, as
amended by Amdt. 119–4, 66 FR 23557, May 9,
2001; Amdt. 119–5, 67 FR 9554, Mar. 1, 2002;
Amdt. 119–7, 68 FR 54584, Sept. 17, 2003; 72 FR
6911, Feb. 13, 2007; Docket FAA–2015–0150,
Amdt. 119–18, 81 FR 42214, June 28, 2016;
Docket FAA–2018–0119, Amdt. 119–19, 83 FR
9172, Mar. 5, 2018; Docket No. FAA–2022–1563;
Amdt. No. 119–20, 88 FR 48088, July 26, 2023]
§ 119.3 [Reserved]
§ 119.5 Certifications, authorizations,
and prohibitions.
(a) A person authorized by the Ad-
ministrator to conduct operations as a
direct air carrier will be issued an Air
Carrier Certificate.
(b) A person not authorized to con-
duct direct air carrier operations, but
authorized by the Administrator to
conduct operations as a U.S. commer-
cial operator, will be issued an Oper-
ating Certificate.
(c) A person not authorized to con-
duct direct air carrier operations, but
authorized by the Administrator to
conduct operations when common car-
riage is not involved as an operator of
any U.S.-registered civil airplane or
powered-lift with a seat configuration
of 20 or more passengers, or a max-
imum payload capacity of 6,000 pounds
or more, will be issued an Operating
Certificate.
(d) A person authorized to engage in
common carriage under part 121 or part
135 of this chapter, or both, shall be
issued only one certificate authorizing
such common carriage, regardless of
the kind of operation or the class or
size of aircraft to be operated.
(e) A person authorized to engage in
noncommon or private carriage under
part 125 or part 135 of this chapter, or
both, shall be issued only one certifi-
cate authorizing such carriage, regard-
less of the kind of operation or the
class or size of aircraft to be operated.
(f) A person conducting operations
under more than one paragraph of
§§ 119.21, 119.23, or 119.25 shall conduct
those operations in compliance with—
(1) The requirements specified in
each paragraph of those sections for
the kind of operation conducted under
that paragraph; and
(2) The appropriate authorizations,
limitations, and procedures specified in
the operations specifications for each
kind of operation.
(g) No person may operate as a direct
air carrier or as a commercial operator
without, or in violation of, an appro-
priate certificate and appropriate oper-
ations specifications. No person may
operate as a direct air carrier or as a
commercial operator in violation of
any deviation or exemption authority,
if issued to that person or that person’s
representative.
(h) A person holding an Operating
Certificate authorizing noncommon or
private carriage operations shall not
conduct any operations in common car-
riage. A person holding an Air Carrier
Certificate or Operating Certificate au-
thorizing common carriage operations
shall not conduct any operations in
noncommon carriage.
(i) No person may operate as a direct
air carrier without holding appropriate
economic authority from the Depart-
ment of Transportation.
(j) A certificate holder under this
part may not operate aircraft under
part 121 or part 135 of this chapter in a
geographical area unless its operations
specifications specifically authorize
the certificate holder to operate in
that area.
(k) No person may advertise or other-
wise offer to perform an operation sub-
ject to this part unless that person is