Part 135 — Operating Requirements: Commuter and on Demand Operations and Rules Governing Persons on Board Such Aircraft
Subpart A — General
- § 135.1— Applicability.
- § 135.2— Compliance schedule for operators that transition to part 121 of this chapter; certain new entrant operators.
- § 135.3— Rules applicable to operations subject to this part.
- § 135.4— Applicability of rules for eligible on-demand operations.
- § 135.7— Applicability of rules to unauthorized operators.
- § 135.12— Previously trained crewmembers.
- § 135.19— Emergency operations.
- § 135.21— Manual requirements.
- § 135.23— Manual contents.
- § 135.25— Aircraft requirements.
- § 135.41— Carriage of narcotic drugs, marihuana, and depressant or stimulant drugs or substances.
- § 135.43— Crewmember certificates: International operations.
Subpart B — Flight Operations
- § 135.61— General.
- § 135.63— Recordkeeping requirements.
- § 135.64— Retention of contracts and amendments: Commercial operators who conduct intrastate operations for compensation or hire.
- § 135.65— Reporting mechanical irregularities.
- § 135.67— Reporting potentially hazardous meteorological conditions and irregularities of ground facilities or navigation aids.
- § 135.69— Restriction or suspension of operations: Continuation of flight in an emergency.
- § 135.71— Airworthiness check.
- § 135.73— Inspections and tests.
- § 135.75— Inspectors credentials: Admission to pilots' compartment: Forward observer's seat.
- § 135.76— DOD Commercial Air Carrier Evaluator's Credentials: Admission to pilots compartment: Forward observer's seat.
- § 135.77— Responsibility for operational control.
- § 135.78— Instrument approach procedures and IFR landing minimums.
- § 135.79— Flight locating requirements.
- § 135.81— Informing personnel of operational information and appropriate changes.
- § 135.83— Operating information required.
- § 135.85— Carriage of persons without compliance with the passenger-carrying provisions of this part.
- § 135.87— Carriage of cargo including carry-on baggage.
- § 135.89— Pilot requirements: Use of oxygen.
- § 135.91— Oxygen and portable oxygen concentrators for medical use by passengers.
- § 135.93— Minimum altitudes for use of autopilot.
- § 135.95— Airmen: Limitations on use of services.
- § 135.97— Aircraft and facilities for recent flight experience.
- § 135.98— Operations in the North Polar Area.
- § 135.99— Composition of flight crew.
- § 135.100— Flight crewmember duties.
- § 135.101— Second in command required under IFR.
- § 135.105— Exception to second in command requirement: Approval for use of autopilot system.
- § 135.107— Flight attendant crewmember requirement.
- § 135.109— Pilot in command or second in command: Designation required.
- § 135.111— Second in command required in Category II operations.
- § 135.113— Passenger occupancy of pilot seat.
- § 135.115— Manipulation of controls.
- § 135.117— Briefing of passengers before flight.
- § 135.119— Prohibition against carriage of weapons.
- § 135.120— Prohibition on interference with crewmembers.
- § 135.121— Alcoholic beverages.
- § 135.122— Stowage of food, beverage, and passenger service equipment during aircraft movement on the surface, takeoff, and landing.
- § 135.123— Emergency and emergency evacuation duties.
- § 135.125— Aircraft security.
- § 135.127— Passenger information requirements and smoking prohibitions.
- § 135.128— Use of safety belts and child restraint systems.
- § 135.129— Exit seating.
Subpart C — Aircraft and Equipment
- § 135.141— Applicability.
- § 135.143— General requirements.
- § 135.144— Portable electronic devices.
- § 135.145— Aircraft proving and validation tests.
- § 135.147— Dual controls required.
- § 135.149— Equipment requirements: General.
- § 135.150— Public address and crewmember interphone systems.
- § 135.151— Cockpit voice recorders.
- § 135.152— Flight data recorders.
- § 135.154— Terrain awareness and warning system.
- § 135.155— Fire extinguishers: Passenger-carrying aircraft.
- § 135.156— Flight data recorders: filtered data.
- § 135.157— Oxygen equipment requirements.
- § 135.158— Pitot heat indication systems.
- § 135.159— Equipment requirements: Carrying passengers under VFR at night or under VFR over-the-top conditions.
- § 135.160— Radio altimeters for rotorcraft operations.
- § 135.161— Communication and navigation equipment for aircraft operations under VFR over routes navigated by pilotage.
- § 135.163— Equipment requirements: Aircraft carrying passengers under IFR.
- § 135.165— Communication and navigation equipment: Extended over-water or IFR operations.
- § 135.167— Emergency equipment: Extended overwater operations.
- § 135.168— Emergency equipment: Overwater rotorcraft operations.
- § 135.169— Additional airworthiness requirements.
- § 135.170— Materials for compartment interiors.
- § 135.171— Shoulder harness installation at flight crewmember stations.
- § 135.173— Airborne thunderstorm detection equipment requirements.
- § 135.175— Airborne weather radar equipment requirements.
- § 135.177— Emergency equipment requirements for aircraft having a passenger seating configuration of more than 19 passengers.
- § 135.178— Additional emergency equipment.
- § 135.179— Inoperable instruments and equipment.
- § 135.180— Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System.
- § 135.181— Performance requirements: Aircraft operated over-the-top or in IFR conditions.
- § 135.183— Performance requirements: Land aircraft operated over water.
- § 135.185— Empty weight and center of gravity: Currency requirement.
Subpart D — VFR/IFR Operating Limitations and Weather Requirements
- § 135.201— Applicability.
- § 135.203— VFR: Minimum altitudes.
- § 135.205— VFR: Visibility requirements.
- § 135.207— VFR: Helicopter surface reference requirements.
- § 135.209— VFR: Fuel supply.
- § 135.211— VFR: Over-the-top carrying passengers: Operating limitations.
- § 135.213— Weather reports and forecasts.
- § 135.215— IFR: Operating limitations.
- § 135.217— IFR: Takeoff limitations.
- § 135.219— IFR: Destination airport weather minimums.
- § 135.221— IFR: Alternate airport weather minimums.
- § 135.223— IFR: Alternate airport requirements.
- § 135.225— IFR: Takeoff, approach and landing minimums.
- § 135.227— Icing conditions: Operating limitations.
- § 135.229— Airport requirements.
Subpart E — Flight Crewmember Requirements
Subpart F — Crewmember Flight Time and Duty Period Limitations and Rest Requirements
- § 135.261— Applicability.
- § 135.263— Flight time limitations and rest requirements: All certificate holders.
- § 135.265— Flight time limitations and rest requirements: Scheduled operations.
- § 135.267— Flight time limitations and rest requirements: Unscheduled one- and two-pilot crews.
- § 135.269— Flight time limitations and rest requirements: Unscheduled three- and four-pilot crews.
- § 135.271— Helicopter hospital emergency medical evacuation service (HEMES).
- § 135.273— Duty period limitations and rest time requirements.
Subpart G — Crewmember Testing Requirements
- § 135.291— Applicability.
- § 135.293— Initial and recurrent pilot testing requirements.
- § 135.295— Initial and recurrent flight attendant crewmember testing requirements.
- § 135.297— Pilot in command: Instrument proficiency check requirements.
- § 135.299— Pilot in command: Line checks: Routes and airports.
- § 135.301— Crewmember: Tests and checks, grace provisions, training to accepted standards.
Subpart H — Training
- § 135.321— Applicability and terms used.
- § 135.323— Training program: General.
- § 135.324— Training program: Special rules.
- § 135.325— Training program and revision: Initial and final approval.
- § 135.327— Training program: Curriculum.
- § 135.329— Crewmember training requirements.
- § 135.330— Crew resource management training.
- § 135.331— Crewmember emergency training.
- § 135.335— Approval of aircraft simulators and other training devices.
- § 135.336— Airline transport pilot certification training program.
- § 135.337— Qualifications: Check pilots.
- § 135.338— Qualifications: Flight instructors.
- § 135.339— Initial and transition training and checking: Check pilots.
- § 135.340— Initial and transition training and checking: Flight instructors.
- § 135.341— Pilot and flight attendant crewmember training programs.
- § 135.343— Crewmember initial and recurrent training requirements.
- § 135.345— Pilots: Initial, transition, and upgrade ground training.
- § 135.347— Pilots: Initial, transition, upgrade, and differences flight training.
- § 135.349— Flight attendants: Initial and transition ground training.
- § 135.351— Recurrent training.
Subpart I — Airplane Performance Operating Limitations
- § 135.361— Applicability.
- § 135.363— General.
- § 135.364— Maximum flying time outside the United States.
- § 135.365— Large transport category airplanes: Reciprocating engine powered: Weight limitations.
- § 135.367— Large transport category airplanes: Reciprocating engine powered: Takeoff limitations.
- § 135.369— Large transport category airplanes: Reciprocating engine powered: En route limitations: All engines operating.
- § 135.371— Large transport category airplanes: Reciprocating engine powered: En route limitations: One engine inoperative.
- § 135.373— Part 25 transport category airplanes with four or more engines: Reciprocating engine powered: En route limitations: Two engines inoperative.
- § 135.375— Large transport category airplanes: Reciprocating engine powered: Landing limitations: Destination airports.
- § 135.377— Large transport category airplanes: Reciprocating engine powered: Landing limitations: Alternate airports.
- § 135.379— Large transport category airplanes: Turbine engine powered: Takeoff limitations.
- § 135.381— Large transport category airplanes: Turbine engine powered: En route limitations: One engine inoperative.
- § 135.383— Large transport category airplanes: Turbine engine powered: En route limitations: Two engines inoperative.
- § 135.385— Large transport category airplanes: Turbine engine powered: Landing limitations: Destination airports.
- § 135.387— Large transport category airplanes: Turbine engine powered: Landing limitations: Alternate airports.
- § 135.389— Large nontransport category airplanes: Takeoff limitations.
- § 135.391— Large nontransport category airplanes: En route limitations: One engine inoperative.
- § 135.393— Large nontransport category airplanes: Landing limitations: Destination airports.
- § 135.395— Large nontransport category airplanes: Landing limitations: Alternate airports.
- § 135.397— Small transport category airplane performance operating limitations.
- § 135.398— Commuter category airplanes performance operating limitations.
- § 135.399— Small nontransport category airplane performance operating limitations.
Subpart J — Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, and Alterations
- § 135.411— Applicability.
- § 135.413— Responsibility for airworthiness.
- § 135.415— Service difficulty reports.
- § 135.417— Mechanical interruption summary report.
- § 135.419— Approved aircraft inspection program.
- § 135.421— Additional maintenance requirements.
- § 135.422— Aging airplane inspections and records reviews for multiengine airplanes certificated with nine or fewer passenger seats.
- § 135.423— Maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alteration organization.
- § 135.425— Maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alteration programs.
- § 135.426— Contract maintenance.
- § 135.427— Manual requirements.
- § 135.429— Required inspection personnel.
- § 135.431— Continuing analysis and surveillance.
- § 135.433— Maintenance and preventive maintenance training program.
- § 135.435— Certificate requirements.
- § 135.437— Authority to perform and approve maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alterations.
- § 135.439— Maintenance recording requirements.
- § 135.441— Transfer of maintenance records.
- § 135.443— Airworthiness release or aircraft maintenance log entry.
Subpart K — Hazardous Materials Training Program
Subpart L — Helicopter Air Ambulance Equipment, Operations, and Training Requirements
- § 135.601— Applicability and definitions.
- § 135.603— Pilot-in-command instrument qualifications.
- § 135.605— Helicopter terrain awareness and warning system (HTAWS).
- § 135.607— Flight Data Monitoring System.
- § 135.609— VFR ceiling and visibility requirements for Class G airspace.
- § 135.611— IFR operations at locations without weather reporting.
- § 135.613— Approach/departure IFR transitions.
- § 135.615— VFR flight planning.
- § 135.617— Pre-flight risk analysis.
- § 135.619— Operations control centers.
- § 135.621— Briefing of medical personnel.