FAA Airworthiness Requirements
December 2, 2018Documents Required in the Aircraft
- Airworthiness Certificate
- Registration
- Operating Handbook (POH)
- Weight and Balance
Day VFR
- Anti-collision Lights (Manufactured After 1996)
- Tachometer
- Oil Pressure Gauge
- Manifold Pressure
- Altimeter
- Temperature Gauge
- Oil Temp Gauge
- Fuel Gauges
- Flotation Device
- Landing Gear Position
- Airspeed Indicator
- Magnetic compass
- ELT
- Seat Belts / Shoulder Harness (Manufactured after 1986)
Night VFR
- Fuses spare set
- Landing Light (Compensation or Hire)
- Anti-Collision Light
- Position Lights
- Source of Energy (Alternator Generator)
Required Inspections
- Annual Inspection (Every 12 Calendar Months)
- VOR
- 100 Hour Inspection (For Hire)
- Altimeter
- Transponder
- ELT
- Pitot Static
14 CFR §91.213 Operations Without a Minimum Equipment List
The inoperative instruments and equipment can not be:
- part of the VFR-day type certification instruments and equipment prescribed in the airworthiness regulations under which the aircraft was type certificated
- indicated as required on the aircraft’s equipment list
- indicated as required on the aircraft’s Kinds of Operations Equipment List for the kind of flight operation being conducted
- required by 14 CFR §91.205 or any other rule of 14 CFR part 91 for the specific kind of flight operation being conducted
- required to be operational by an airworthiness directive
- The inoperative instruments and equipment must be removed from the aircraft, the cockpit control placarded, and the maintenance recorded in accordance with 14 CFR §43.9; or deactivated and placarded “Inoperative.”