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14 CFR Ch. I (1–1–24 Edition) 

§ 129.13 

Standards office concerning the 
amendment, suspension or termination 
of operations specifications, the fol-
lowing procedure applies: 

(1) The foreign air carrier or foreign 

person must petition for reconsider-
ation of that decision within 30 days 
after the date that the foreign air car-
rier or foreign person receives a notice 
of the decision. 

(2) The foreign air carrier or foreign 

person must address its petition to the 
Executive Director, Flight Standards 
Service. 

(3) A petition for reconsideration, if 

filed within the 30-day period, suspends 
the effectiveness of any amendment, 
suspension or termination issued by 
the responsible Flight Standards office 
unless the responsible Flight Standards 
office has found, under paragraph (g) of 
this section, that an emergency exists 
requiring immediate action with re-
spect to safety in air transportation or 
air commerce. 

(g) If the responsible Flight Stand-

ards office finds that an emergency ex-
ists requiring immediate action with 
respect to safety in air commerce or 
air transportation that makes the pro-
cedures set out in this section imprac-
ticable or contrary to the public inter-
est, that office may make the amend-
ment, suspension or termination effec-
tive on the day the foreign air carrier 
or foreign person receives notice of it. 
In the notice to the foreign air carrier 
or foreign person, the responsible 
Flight Standards office will articulate 
the reasons for its finding that an 
emergency exists requiring immediate 
action with respect to safety in air 
transportation or air commerce or that 
makes it impracticable or contrary to 
the public interest to stay the effec-
tiveness of the amendment, suspension 
or termination. 

[Doc. No. FAA–2009–0140, 76 FR 7490, Feb. 10, 
2011, as amended by Docket FAA–2018–0119, 
Amdt. 129–53, 83 FR 9174, Mar. 5, 2018] 

§ 129.13 Airworthiness and registra-

tion certificates. 

(a) No foreign air carrier may operate 

any aircraft within the United States 
unless that aircraft carries a current 
registration certificate and displays 
the nationality and registration mark-
ings of the State of Registry, and an 

airworthiness certificate issued or vali-
dated by: 

(1) The State of Registry; or 
(2) The State of the Operator, pro-

vided that the State of the Operator 
and the State of Registry have entered 
into an agreement under Article 83

bis 

of the Convention on International 
Civil Aviation that covers the aircraft. 

(b) No foreign air carrier may operate 

a foreign aircraft within the United 
States except in accordance with the 
limitations on maximum certificated 
weights prescribed for that aircraft and 
that operation by the country of manu-
facture of the aircraft. 

[Doc. No. 1994, 29 FR 1720, Feb. 5, 1964, as 
amended by Amdt. 129–33, 67 FR 42455, June 
21, 2002; Amdt. 129–49, 76 FR 7490, Feb. 10, 
2011] 

§ 129.14 Maintenance program and 

minimum equipment list require-

ments for U.S.-registered aircraft. 

(a) Each foreign air carrier and each 

foreign person operating a U.S.-reg-
istered aircraft within or outside the 
United States in common carriage 
must ensure that each aircraft is main-
tained in accordance with a program 
approved by the Administrator in the 
operations specifications. 

(b) No foreign air carrier or foreign 

person may operate a U.S.-registered 
aircraft with inoperable instruments or 
equipment unless the following condi-
tions are met: 

(1) A master minimum equipment list 

exists for the aircraft type. 

(2) The foreign operator submits for 

review and approval its aircraft min-
imum equipment list based on the mas-
ter minimum equipment list, to the re-
sponsible Flight Standards office for 
the operator. The foreign operator 
must show, before minimum equipment 
list approval can be obtained, that the 
maintenance procedures used under its 
maintenance program are adequate to 
support the use of its minimum equip-
ment list. 

(3) For leased aircraft maintained 

and operated under a U.S. operator’s 
continuous airworthiness maintenance 
program and FAA-approved minimum 
equipment list, the foreign operator 
submits the U.S. operator’s approved 
continuous airworthiness maintenance