Volume: 1Date: 2024-01-01Original Date: 2024-01-01Title: Section 27.969 - Fuel tank expansion space.Context:
Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space. CHAPTER I - FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. SUBCHAPTER C - AIRCRAFT. PART 27 - AIRWORTHINESS STANDARDS: NORMAL CATEGORY ROTORCRAFT. Subpart E - Powerplant. - Fuel System.
§ 27.969Fuel tank expansion space.
Each fuel tank or each group of fuel tanks with interconnected vent systems must have an expansion space of
not less than 2 percent of the tank capacity. It must be impossible to fill the fuel tank expansion space inadvertently with the rotorcraft in the normal ground attitude.
Code of Federal Regulations /
Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space /
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