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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT
§ 48.20
Subpart B—Certificates of Aircraft
Registration for Small Unmanned Aircraft
48.100
Registration: Small unmanned air-
craft operated for any purpose other than
exclusively limited recreational oper-
ations.
48.105
Registration: Small unmanned air-
craft intended exclusively for limited
recreational operations.
48.110
Application.
48.115
Requirement to maintain current in-
formation.
48.120
Invalid registration.
48.125
Foreign civil aircraft.
Subpart C—Aircraft Marking
48.200
General.
48.205
Display and location of unique identi-
fier.
A
UTHORITY
: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40101,
40103, 40113–40114, 41703, 44101–44103, 44105–
44106, 44110–44113, 44809(f), 45302, 45305, 46104,
46301, 46306.
S
OURCE
: Doc. No. FAA–2015–7396; Amdt. No.
48–1; 80 FR 78645, Dec. 16, 2015, unless other-
wise noted.
Subpart A—General
§ 48.1
Applicability.
(a) This part provides registration
and identification requirements for
small unmanned aircraft that are part
of a small unmanned aircraft system as
defined in § 1.1 of this chapter.
(b) Small unmanned aircraft eligible
for registration in the United States
must be registered and identified in ac-
cordance with either:
(1) The registration and identifica-
tion requirements in this part; or
(2) The registration requirements in
part 47 and the identification and reg-
istration marking requirements in sub-
parts A and C of part 45.
(c) Small unmanned aircraft intended
to be operated outside of the territorial
airspace of the United States, or reg-
istered through a trust or voting trust,
must be registered in accordance with
subparts A and B of part 47 and satisfy
the identification and registration
marking requirements of subparts A
and C of part 45.
§ 48.5
[Reserved]
§ 48.10
Definitions.
For purposes of this part, the fol-
lowing definitions apply:
Citizen of the United States or U.S. cit-
izen means one of the following:
(1) An individual who is a citizen of
the United States or one of its posses-
sions.
(2) A partnership each of whose part-
ners is an individual who is a citizen of
the United States.
(3) A corporation or association orga-
nized under the laws of the United
States or a State, the District of Co-
lumbia, or a territory or possession of
the United States, of which the presi-
dent and at least two-thirds of the
board of directors and other managing
officers are citizens of the United
States, which is under the actual con-
trol of citizens of the United States,
and in which at least 75 percent of the
voting interest is owned or controlled
by persons that are citizens of the
United States.
Registry means the FAA, Civil Avia-
tion Registry, Aircraft Registration
Branch.
Resident alien means an individual
citizen of a foreign country lawfully
admitted for permanent residence in
the United States as an immigrant in
conformity with the regulations of the
Department of Homeland Security (8
CFR Chapter 1).
§ 48.15
Requirement to register.
No person may operate a small un-
manned aircraft that is eligible for reg-
istration under 49 U.S.C. 44101–44103 un-
less one of the following criteria has
been satisfied:
(a) The owner has registered and
marked the aircraft in accordance with
this part;
(b) The aircraft is operated exclu-
sively in compliance with 49 U.S.C.
44809 and weighs 0.55 pounds or less on
takeoff, including everything that is on
board or otherwise attached to the air-
craft; or
(c) The aircraft is an aircraft of the
Armed Forces of the United States.
[Doc. No. FAA–2015–7396; Amdt. No. 48–1; 80
FR 78645, Dec. 16, 2015, as amended by Doc.
No. FAA–2019–1100; Amdt. No. 48–3; 86 FR
4504, Jan. 15, 2021]
§ 48.20
Eligibility for registration.
A small unmanned aircraft may be
registered under 49 U.S.C. 44103 and
under this part only when the aircraft
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