Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space
Volume: 3Date: 2022-01-01Original Date: 2022-01-01Title: Section 121.1119 - Fuel tank vent explosion protection.Context:
Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space. CHAPTER I - FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (CONTINUED). SUBCHAPTER G - AIR CARRIERS AND OPERATORS FOR COMPENSATION OR HIRE: CERTIFICATION AND OPERATIONS. PART 121 - OPERATING REQUIREMENTS: DOMESTIC, FLAG, AND SUPPLEMENTAL OPERATIONS. Subpart AA - Continued Airworthiness and Safety Improvements.
§ 121.1119
Fuel tank vent explosion protection.
(a)
Applicability.
This section applies to transport category, turbine-powered airplanes with a type certificate issued after January 1, 1958, that have:
(1) A maximum type-certificated passenger capacity of 30 or more; or
(2) A maximum payload capacity of 7,500 pounds or more.
(b)
New production airplanes.
No certificate holder may operate an airplane for which the State of Manufacture issued the original certificate of airworthiness or export airworthiness approval after August 23, 2018 unless means, approved by the Administrator, to prevent fuel tank explosions caused by propagation of flames from outside the fuel tank vents into the fuel tank vapor spaces are installed and operational.
[Docket FAA-2014-0500, Amdt. 121-375, 81 FR 41208, June 24, 2016]