Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01027:reg:15:p60
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01027
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 15 (pt 60/182)
Character Range: 294928–297923

requirements for the issue of certificates of airworthiness (except provisional certificates of airworthiness) and special flight permits.
Source FARs section 21.171 modified.
Note: Under Part 200 (Aircraft to which CASR do not apply), certain Australian aircraft are authorised to fly without a certificate of airworthiness.

21.172  Definitions for Subpart
  In this Subpart:
LSA standards means:
 (a) the standards for the design, performance or continuing airworthiness of light sport aircraft issued by the American Society for Testing and Materials, as in force from time to time; or
 (b) the standards prescribed by the Part 21 Manual of Standards for the design, performance or continuing airworthiness of light sport aircraft.
Note: The standards issued by the American Society for Testing and Materials could in 2015 be viewed on the society's website (http://www.astm.com).
qualified manufacturer of a light sport aircraft means:
 (a) a manufacturer who, at the time the light sport aircraft was manufactured, held a current production certificate for an aircraft; or
 (b) a manufacturer who has made a written declaration that, at the time the light sport aircraft was manufactured, it had:
 (i) contracted engineering personnel with experience in ultralight or light aircraft design to ensure compliance with LSA standards referred to in paragraph 21.186(2)(b); and
 (ii) facilities and tools suitable for the production of the aircraft in accordance with the applicable LSA standards; and
 (iii) competent personnel, with appropriate training, skills and experience, to perform work that affects product quality.

21.173  Eligibility
 (1) In this regulation:
certificate of airworthiness does not include:
 (a) an experimental certificate; or
 (b) a provisional certificate of airworthiness.
 (2) The registered operator of an aircraft, or the owner of an aircraft that is listed with a Part 103 ASAO, is eligible to apply for a certificate of airworthiness for the aircraft.
 (3) The application must be made to:
 (a) for an application for a limited category certificate—CASA or a limited category organisation; or
 (b) for any other application—CASA or an authorised person.

21.174  Applications for limited category certificates made to CASA—giving to limited category organisation
 (1) This regulation applies if an application for a limited category certificate for an aircraft is made to CASA.
 (2) CASA may give the application to a limited category organisation for the purposes of the organisation deciding the application.
 (3) If there is more than one limited category organisation that may deal with the application, CASA must ask the applicant to nominate a limited category organisation for the application.
 (4) If CASA gives the application to a limited category organisation under this regulation, CASA must give the organisation anything in its records about the applicant that is relevant to the organisation making a decision on the application.
 (5) If CASA