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§ 137.1 Applicability.
§ 137.3 Definition of terms.
Subpart B - Certification Rules
§ 137.11 Certificate required.
§ 137.15 Application for certificate.
§ 137.17 Amendment of certificate.
§ 137.19 Certification requirements.
§ 137.21 Duration of certificate.
§ 137.23 Carriage of narcotic drugs, marihuana, and depressant or stimulant drugs or substances.
Subpart C - Operating Rules
§ 137.31 Aircraft requirements.
§ 137.33 Carrying of certificate.
§ 137.35 Limitations on private agricultural aircraft operator.
§ 137.37 Manner of dispensing.
§ 137.39 Economic poison dispensing.
§ 137.41 Personnel.
§ 137.42 Fastening of safety belts and shoulder harnesses.
§ 137.43 Operations in controlled airspace designated for an airport.
§ 137.45 Nonobservance of airport traffic pattern.
§ 137.47 Operation without position lights.
§ 137.49 Operations over other than congested areas.
§ 137.51 Operation over congested areas: General.
§ 137.53 Operation over congested areas: Pilots and aircraft.
§ 137.55 Business name: Commercial agricultural aircraft operator.
§ 137.57 Availability of certificate.
§ 137.59 Inspection authority.
§ 137.71 Records: Commercial agricultural aircraft operator.
§ 137.75 Change of address.
§ 137.77 Termination of operations.
74 FR 13098, March 26, 2009, effective March 26, 2009.
Amdt. 137-15, 60 FR 67254, Dec. 28, 1995.
Amdt. 137-14, 56 FR 65663, Dec. 17, 1991.
Amdt. 137-13, 54 FR 39294, Sept. 25, 1989.
(a) This part prescribes rules governing -
(c) Each person who, under the authority of this section, deviates from a rule of this part shall, within 10 days after the deviation send to the nearest FAA Flight Standards District Office a complete report of the aircraft operation involved, including a description of the operation and the reasons for it.
[Doc. No. 1464, 30 FR 8106, June 24, 1965, as amended by Amdt. 137-13, 54 FR 39294, Sept. 25, 1989]
"Agricultural aircraft operation" means the operation of an aircraft for the purpose of (1) dispensing any economic poison, (2) dispensing any other substance intended for plant nourishment, soil treatment, propagation of plant life, or pest control, or (3) engaging in dispensing activities directly affecting agriculture, horticulture, or forest preservation, but not including the dispensing of live insects.
"Economic poison" means (1) any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any insects, rodents, nematodes, fungi, weeds, and other forms of plant or animal life or viruses, except viruses on or in living man or other animals, which the Secretary of Agriculture shall declare to be a pest, and (2) any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant.
(b) Notwithstanding Part 133 of this chapter, an operator may, if he complies with this part, conduct agricultural aircraft operations with a rotorcraft with external dispensing equipment in place without a rotorcraft external load operator certificate.
(d) The holder of a rotorcraft external load operator certificate under Part 133 of this chapter conducting an agricultural aircraft operation, involving only the dispensing of water on forest fires by rotorcraft external load means, need not comply with this subpart.
An application for an agricultural aircraft operator certificate is made on a form and in a manner prescribed by the Administrator, and filed with the FAA Flight Standards District Office that has jurisdiction over the area in which the applicant's home base of operations is located.
(a) An agricultural aircraft operator certificate may be amended -
(b) An application to amend an agricultural aircraft operator certificate is submitted on a form and in a manner prescribed by the Administrator. The applicant must file the application with the FAA Flight Standards District Office having jurisdiction over the area in which the applicant's home base of operations is located at least 15 days before the date that it proposes the amendment become effective, unless a shorter filing period is approved by that office.
(c) The Flight Standards District Office grants a request to amend a certificate if it determines that safety in air commerce and the public interest so allow.
(d) Within 30 days after receiving a refusal to amend, the holder may petition the Director, Flight Standards Service, to reconsider the refusal.
[Doc. No. 1464, 30 FR 8106, June 24, 1965, as amended by Amdt. 137-9, 43 FR 52206, Nov. 9, 1978; Amdt. 137-11, 45 FR 47838, July 17, 1980; Amdt. 137-13, 54 FR 39294, Sept. 25, 1989]
(b) Private operator - pilot. The applicant must hold a current U.S. private, commercial, or airline transport pilot certificate and be properly rated for the aircraft to be used.
(c) Commercial operator - pilots. The applicant must have available the services of at least one person who holds a current U.S. commercial or airline transport pilot certificate and who is properly rated for the aircraft to be used. The applicant himself may be the person available.
(2) The test of skill consists of the following maneuvers that must be shown in any of the aircraft specified in paragraph (d) of this section, and at that aircraft's maximum certificated takeoff weight, or the maximum weight established for the special purpose load, whichever is greater:
(i) Short field and soft field takeoffs (airplanes and gyroplanes only).
(iii) Flareouts.
[Doc. No. 12035, Amdt. 137-4, 38 FR 17493, July 2, 1973, as amended by Amdt. 137-12, 54 FR 34332, Aug. 18, 1989]
(d) Sections 137.31 through 137.35, §§ 137.41, and 137.53 through 137.59 do not apply to persons and aircraft used in agricultural aircraft operations conducted with public aircraft.
(e) Sections 137.31 through 137.35, §§ 137.39, 137.41, 137.51 through 137.59, and Subpart D do not apply to persons and rotorcraft used in agricultural aircraft operations conducted by a person holding a certificate under Part 133 of this chapter and involving only the dispensing of water on forest fires by rotorcraft external load means. However, the operation shall be conducted in accordance with -
(1) The rules of Part 133 of this chapter governing rotorcraft external load operations; and
(2) The operating rules of this subpart contained in §§ 137.29, 137.37, and §§ 137.43 through 137.49.
No person may operate an aircraft unless that aircraft -
(a) Meets the requirements of § 137.19(d); and
No person may conduct an agricultural aircraft operation under the authority of a private agricultural aircraft operator certificate -
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, no person may dispense or cause to be dispensed from an aircraft, any economic poison that is registered with the U.S. Department of Agriculture under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 135-135k) -
(b) This section does not apply to any person dispensing economic poisons for experimental purposes under -
(b) Supervisors. No person may supervise an agricultural aircraft operation unless he has met the knowledge and skill requirements of § 137.19(e).
(c) Pilot in command. No person may act as pilot in command of an aircraft unless he holds a pilot certificate and rating prescribed by § 137.19(b) or (c), as appropriate to the type of operation conducted. In addition, he must demonstrate to the holder of the Agricultural Aircraft Operator Certificate conducting the operation that he has met the knowledge and skill requirements of § 137.19(e). If the holder of that certificate has designated a person under § 137.19(e) to supervise his agricultural aircraft operations the demonstration must be made to the person so designated. However, a demonstration of the knowledge and skill requirement is not necessary for any pilot in command who -
{New-2009-08 (c) revised March 26, 2009, effective March 26, 2009. Corrected reference.}
(c) Notwithstanding § 91.157(b)(4) of this chapter, an aircraft may be operated under the special VFR weather minimums without meeting the requirements prescribed therein.
[Doc. No. 1464, 30 FR 8106, June 24, 1964, as amended by Amdt. 137-8, 43 FR 28178, June 29, 1978; Amdt. 137-12, 54 FR 34332, Aug. 18, 1989; Amdt. 137-14, 56 FR 65663, Dec. 17, 1991, as corrected by 58 FR 32840, June 14, 1993; 74 FR 13098, March 26, 2009, effective March 26, 2009]
Notwithstanding Part 91 of this chapter, an aircraft may be operated without position lights if prominent unlighted objects are visible for at least 1 mile and takeoffs and landings at -
(a) Notwithstanding Part 91 of this chapter, an aircraft may be operated over a congested area at altitudes required for the proper accomplishment of the agricultural aircraft operation if the operation is conducted -
(2) Notice of the intended operation must be given to the public by some effective means, such as daily newspapers, radio, television, or door to door notice.
(i) Except for helicopters, no person may takeoff a loaded aircraft, or make a turnaround over a congested area.
(i) No person may takeoff a multiengine airplane over a congested area except under conditions that will allow the airplane to be brought to a safe stop within the effective length of the runway from any point on takeoff up to the time of attaining, with all engines operating at normal takeoff power, 105 percent of the minimum control speed with the critical engine inoperative in the takeoff configuration or 115 percent of the power off stall speed in the takeoff configuration, whichever is greater, as shown by the accelerate-stop distance data. In applying this requirement, takeoff data is based upon still air conditions, and no correction is made for any uphill gradient of 1 percent or less when the percentage is measured as the difference between elevation at the end points of the runway divided by the total length. For uphill gradients greater than 1 percent, the effective takeoff length of the runway is reduced 20 percent for each 1 percent grade.
[Doc. No. 1464, 30 FR 8106, June 24, 1965, as amended by Doc. No. 8084, 32 FR 5769, Apr. 11, 1967; Amdt. 137-13, 54 FR 39294, Sept. 25, 1989]
(b) Pilots. Each pilot in command must have at least -
(1) 25 hours of pilot in command flight time in the make and basic model of the aircraft, at least 10 hours of which must have been acquired within the preceding 12 calendar months; and
(1) Each aircraft must -
(i) If it is an aircraft not specified in paragraph (c)(1)(ii) of this section, have had within the preceding 100 hours of time in service a 100 hour or annual inspection by a person authorized by Part 65 or 145 of this chapter, or have been inspected under a progressive inspection system; and
(ii) If it is a large or turbine powered multiengine civil airplane of U.S. registry, have been inspected in accordance with the applicable inspection program requirements of § 91.409 of this chapter.
Each holder of an agricultural aircraft operator certificate shall allow the Administrator at any time and place to make inspections, including on the job inspections, to determine compliance with applicable regulations and his agricultural aircraft operator certificate.
(4) The name, address, and certificate number of each pilot used in agricultural aircraft operations and the date that pilot met the knowledge and skill requirements of § 137.19(e).
Whenever a person holding an agricultural aircraft operator certificate ceases operations under this part, he shall surrender that certificate to the FAA Flight Standards District Office last having jurisdiction over his operation.