Part 21 — Certification Procedures for Products and Articles
Subpart A — General
- § 21.1— Applicability and definitions.
- § 21.3— Reporting of failures, malfunctions, and defects.
- § 21.4— ETOPS reporting requirements.
- § 21.5— Airplane or Rotorcraft Flight Manual.
- § 21.6— Manufacture of new aircraft, aircraft engines, and propellers.
- § 21.7— Continued airworthiness and safety improvements for transport category airplanes.
- § 21.8— Approval of articles.
- § 21.9— Replacement and modification articles.
Subpart B — Type Certificates
- § 21.11— Applicability.
- § 21.13— Eligibility.
- § 21.15— Application for type certificate.
- § 21.16— Special conditions.
- § 21.17— Designation of applicable regulations.
- § 21.19— Changes requiring a new type certificate.
- § 21.20— Compliance with applicable requirements.
- § 21.21— Issue of type certificate: normal, utility, acrobatic, commuter, and transport category aircraft; manned free balloons; special classes of aircraft; aircraft engines; propellers.
- § 21.24— Issuance of type certificate: primary category aircraft.
- § 21.25— Issue of type certificate: restricted category aircraft.
- § 21.27— Issue of type certificate: surplus aircraft of the Armed Forces.
- § 21.29— Issue of type certificate: import products.
- § 21.31— Type design.
- § 21.33— Inspection and tests.
- § 21.35— Flight tests.
- § 21.37— Flight test pilot.
- § 21.39— Flight test instrument calibration and correction report.
- § 21.41— Type certificate.
- § 21.43— Location of manufacturing facilities.
- § 21.45— Privileges.
- § 21.47— Transferability.
- § 21.49— Availability.
- § 21.50— Instructions for continued airworthiness and manufacturer's maintenance manuals having airworthiness limitations sections.
- § 21.51— Duration.
- § 21.53— Statement of conformity.
- § 21.55— Responsibilities of type certificate holders who license the type certificate.
Subpart C — Provisional Type Certificates
- § 21.71— Applicability.
- § 21.73— Eligibility.
- § 21.75— Application.
- § 21.77— Duration.
- § 21.79— Transferability.
- § 21.81— Requirements for issue and amendment of Class I provisional type certificates.
- § 21.83— Requirements for issue and amendment of Class II provisional type certificates.
- § 21.85— Provisional amendments to type certificates.
Subpart D — Changes to Type Certificates
Subpart E — Supplemental Type Certificates
Subpart F — Production Under Type Certificate
Subpart G — Production Certificates
- § 21.131— Applicability.
- § 21.132— Eligibility.
- § 21.133— Application.
- § 21.135— Organization.
- § 21.137— Quality system.
- § 21.138— Quality manual.
- § 21.139— Location of or change to manufacturing facilities.
- § 21.140— Inspections and tests.
- § 21.141— Issuance.
- § 21.142— Production limitation record.
- § 21.143— Duration.
- § 21.144— Transferability.
- § 21.145— Privileges.
- § 21.146— Responsibility of holder.
- § 21.147— Amendment of production certificates.
- § 21.150— Changes in quality system.
Subpart H — Airworthiness Certificates
- § 21.171— Applicability.
- § 21.173— Eligibility.
- § 21.175— Airworthiness certificates: classification.
- § 21.177— Amendment or modification.
- § 21.179— Transferability.
- § 21.181— Duration.
- § 21.182— Aircraft identification.
- § 21.183— Issue of standard airworthiness certificates for normal, utility, acrobatic, commuter, and transport category aircraft; manned free balloons; and special classes of aircraft.
- § 21.184— Issue of special airworthiness certificates for primary category aircraft.
- § 21.185— Issue of airworthiness certificates for restricted category aircraft.
- § 21.187— Issue of multiple airworthiness certifications for restricted category aircraft.
- § 21.189— Issue of airworthiness certificate for limited category aircraft.
- § 21.190— Issue of a special airworthiness certificate for a light-sport category aircraft.
- § 21.191— Issue of experimental airworthiness certificates.
- § 21.193— Experimental airworthiness certificates: General.
- § 21.195— Experimental airworthiness certificates: Aircraft to be used for market surveys, sales demonstrations, and customer crew training.
- § 21.197— Special flight permits.
- § 21.199— Issue of special flight permits.
Subpart I — Provisional Airworthiness Certificates
- § 21.211— Applicability.
- § 21.213— Eligibility.
- § 21.215— Application.
- § 21.217— Duration.
- § 21.219— Transferability.
- § 21.221— Class I provisional airworthiness certificates.
- § 21.223— Class II provisional airworthiness certificates.
- § 21.225— Provisional airworthiness certificates corresponding with provisional amendments to type certificates.
Subpart K — Parts Manufacturer Approvals
- § 21.301— Applicability.
- § 21.303— Application.
- § 21.305— Organization.
- § 21.307— Quality system.
- § 21.308— Quality manual.
- § 21.309— Location of or change to manufacturing facilities.
- § 21.310— Inspections and tests.
- § 21.311— Issuance.
- § 21.313— Duration.
- § 21.314— Transferability.
- § 21.316— Responsibility of holder.
- § 21.319— Design changes.
- § 21.320— Changes in quality system.
Subpart L — Export Airworthiness Approvals
Subpart N — Acceptance of Aircraft Engines, Propellers, and Articles for Import
Subpart O — Technical Standard Order Approvals
- § 21.601— Applicability and definitions.
- § 21.603— Application.
- § 21.605— Organization.
- § 21.607— Quality system.
- § 21.608— Quality manual.
- § 21.609— Location of or change to manufacturing facilities.
- § 21.610— Inspections and tests.
- § 21.611— Issuance.
- § 21.613— Duration.
- § 21.614— Transferability.
- § 21.616— Responsibility of holder.
- § 21.618— Approval for deviation.
- § 21.619— Design changes.
- § 21.620— Changes in quality system.
- § 21.621— Issue of letters of TSO design approval: Import articles.