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§ 121.383
recurring action, the time and date
when the next action is required.
(vii) A list of current major alter-
ations to each airframe, engine, pro-
peller, and appliance.
(b) A certificate holder need not
record the total time in service of an
engine or propeller on a transport cat-
egory cargo airplane, a transport cat-
egory airplane that has a passenger
seat configuration of more than 30
seats, or a nontransport category air-
plane type certificated before January
1, 1958, until the following, whichever
occurs first:
(1) March 20, 1997; or
(2) The date of the first overhaul of
the engine or propeller, as applicable,
after January 19, 1996.
(c) Each certificate holder shall re-
tain the records required to be kept by
this section for the following periods:
(1) Except for the records of the last
complete overhaul of each airframe,
engine, propeller, and appliance, the
records specified in paragraph (a)(1) of
this section shall be retained until the
work is repeated or superseded by
other work or for one year after the
work is performed.
(2) The records of the last complete
overhaul of each airframe, engine, pro-
peller, and appliance shall be retained
until the work is superseded by work of
equivalent scope and detail.
(3) The records specified in paragraph
(a)(2) of this section shall be retained
and transferred with the aircraft at the
time the aircraft is sold.
(d) The certificate holder shall make
all maintenance records required to be
kept by this section available for in-
spection by the Administrator or any
authorized representative of the Na-
tional Transportation Safety Board
(NTSB).
[Doc. No. 10658, 37 FR 15983, Aug. 9, 1972, as
amended by Amdt. 121–251, 60 FR 65933, Dec.
20, 1995; Amdt. 121–321, 71 FR 536, Jan. 4, 2006]
§ 121.380a Transfer of maintenance
records.
Each certificate holder who sells a
U.S. registered aircraft shall transfer
to the purchaser, at the time of sale,
the following records of that aircraft,
in plain language form or in coded form
at the election of the purchaser, if the
coded form provides for the preserva-
tion and retrieval of information in a
manner acceptable to the Adminis-
trator:
(a) The record specified in
§ 121.380(a)(2).
(b) The records specified in
§ 121.380(a)(1) which are not included in
the records covered by paragraph (a) of
this section, except that the purchaser
may permit the seller to keep physical
custody of such records. However, cus-
tody of records in the seller does not
relieve the purchaser of his responsi-
bility under § 121.380(c) to make the
records available for inspection by the
Administrator or any authorized rep-
resentative of the National Transpor-
tation Safety Board (NTSB).
[Doc. No. 10658, 37 FR 15984, Aug. 9, 1972]
Subpart M—Airman and
Crewmember Requirements
S
OURCE
: Docket No. 6258, 29 FR 19212, Dec.
31, 1964, unless otherwise noted.
§ 121.381 Applicability.
This subpart prescribes airman and
crewmember requirements for all cer-
tificate holders.
§ 121.383 Airman: Limitations on use of
services.
(a) No certificate holder may use any
person as an airman nor may any per-
son serve as an airman unless that per-
son—
(1) Holds an appropriate current air-
man certificate issued by the FAA;
(2) Has in his or her possession while
engaged in operations under this part—
(i) Any required appropriate current
airman and medical certificates; or
(ii) A temporary document issued in
accordance with paragraph (c) of this
section; and
(3) Is otherwise qualified for the oper-
ation for which he is to be used.
(b) Each airman covered by para-
graph (a)(2) of this section shall
present his or her certificates or tem-
porary document for inspection upon
request of the Administrator.
(c) A certificate holder may obtain
approval to provide a temporary docu-
ment verifying a flightcrew member’s
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§ 121.385
airman certificate and medical certifi-
cate privileges under an approved cer-
tificate verification plan set forth in
the certificate holder’s operations
specifications. A document provided by
the certificate holder may be carried as
an airman certificate or medical cer-
tificate on flights within the United
States for up to 72 hours.
(d) No certificate holder may use the
services of any person as a pilot on an
airplane engaged in operations under
this part if that person has reached his
or her 65th birthday.
(e) No pilot may serve as a pilot in
operations under this part if that per-
son has reached his or her 65th birth-
day.
[Doc. No. 6258, 29 FR 19212, Dec. 31, 1964, as
amended by Amdt. 121–144, 43 FR 22646, May
25, 1978; Amdt. 121–344, 74 FR 34234, July 15,
2009; Amdt. 121–372, 80 FR 33401, June 12, 2015;
Amdt. 121–381, 83 FR 30282, June 27, 2018]
§ 121.385 Composition of flight crew.
(a) No certificate holder may operate
an airplane with less than the min-
imum flight crew in the airworthiness
certificate or the airplane Flight Man-
ual approved for that type airplane and
required by this part for the kind of op-
eration being conducted.
(b) In any case in which this part re-
quires the performance of two or more
functions for which an airman certifi-
cate is necessary, that requirement is
not satisfied by the performance of
multiple functions at the same time by
one airman.
(c) The minimum pilot crew is two
pilots and the certificate holder shall
designate one pilot as pilot in com-
mand and the other second in com-
mand.
(d) On each flight requiring a flight
engineer at least one flight crew-
member, other than the flight engi-
neer, must be qualified to provide
emergency performance of the flight
engineer’s functions for the safe com-
pletion of the flight if the flight engi-
neer becomes ill or is otherwise inca-
pacitated. A pilot need not hold a
flight engineer’s certificate to perform
the flight engineer’s functions in such
a situation.
[Doc. No. 6258, 29 FR 19212, Dec. 31, 1964, as
amended by Amdt. 121–178, 47 FR 13316, Mar.
29, 1982; Amdt. 121–256, 61 FR 30434, June 14,
1996]
§ 121.387 Flight engineer.
No certificate holder may operate an
airplane for which a type certificate
was issued before January 2, 1964, hav-
ing a maximum certificated takeoff
weight of more than 80,000 pounds with-
out a flight crewmember holding a cur-
rent flight engineer certificate. For
each airplane type certificated after
January 1, 1964, the requirement for a
flight engineer is determined under the
type certification requirements of
§ 25.1523.
[Doc. No. 5025, 30 FR 6067, Apr. 29, 1965]
§ 121.389 Flight navigator and special-
ized navigation equipment.
(a) No certificate holder may operate
an airplane outside the 48 contiguous
States and the District of Columbia,
when its position cannot be reliably
fixed for a period of more than 1 hour,
without—
(1) A flight crewmember who holds a
current flight navigator certificate; or
(2) Specialized means of navigation
approved in accordance with § 121.355
which enables a reliable determination
to be made of the position of the air-
plane by each pilot seated at his duty
station.
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of
this section, the Administrator may
also require a flight navigator or spe-
cial navigation equipment, or both,
when specialized means of navigation
are necessary for 1 hour or less. In
making this determination, the Admin-
istrator considers—
(1) The speed of the airplane;
(2) Normal weather conditions en
route;
(3) Extent of air traffic control;
(4) Traffic congestion;
(5) Area of navigational radio cov-
erage at destination;
(6) Fuel requirements;
(7) Fuel available for return to point
of departure or alternates;
(8) Predication of flight upon oper-
ation beyond the point of no return;
and