Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01027:reg:15:p125
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01027
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 15 (pt 125/182)
Character Range: 467876–470738

Source FARs section 21.621 modified.
Subpart 21.Q—Identification of aircraft and aeronautical products

Division 21.Q.1—Preliminary

21.805  Applicability of this Subpart
  This Subpart applies to an aircraft, aircraft engine, aircraft propeller, critical part or other aircraft part manufactured after this Subpart commences.

21.810  Meaning of fireproof
 (1) A reference in this Subpart to a fireproof manufacturer's data plate is a reference to a data plate that:
 (a) is made of material that withstands the heat of a fire at least as well as a steel plate of the same size and thickness; and
 (b) on which the details that it is required to bear are legibly marked by a fireproof method.
 (2) In this Subpart:
fireproof method of marking means marking by:
 (a) etching, stamping or engraving; or
 (b) another similar method of marking approved for a particular purpose.

Division 21.Q.2—Aircraft, aircraft engines and aircraft propellers

21.815  Applicability of this Division
  This Division applies to an aircraft (or an aircraft engine or aircraft propeller) manufactured after this Subpart commences.

21.820  Manufacturer's data plate must be attached to aircraft
 (1) This regulation sets out the requirements for attaching a manufacturer's data plate to an aircraft to which this Division applies.
 (2) The manufacturer of an aircraft to which this Division applies must attach to it, as set out in subregulations (3) and (4), a fireproof manufacturer's data plate bearing the following information:
 (a) the name of the manufacturer;
 (b) the identification number of the aircraft's type certificate (if any);
 (c) the identification number of the production certificate (if any) under which the aircraft is manufactured;
 (d) the aircraft's model designation;
 (e) the aircraft's serial number.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
 (2A) An offence against subregulation (2) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.
 (3) The data plate must be attached in a way that ensures that it is not likely to be defaced or removed during normal service, nor lost or destroyed in an accident.
 (4) The data plate must be attached:
 (a) to a manned free balloon—to the lower section of the balloon's envelope in a place where the operator can read it when the balloon is inflated; or
 (b) to a glider—in a visible place inside the cockpit; or
 (c) to any other aircraft—in a place where it is clearly legible:
 (i) on the frame of the aircraft's rearmost entrance; or
 (ii) near, but aft of, the aircraft's rearmost entrance; or
 (iii) on the aircraft's fuselage near its tail.
Note: For the definition of aircraft see section 3 of the Act.  For the definitions of identification number, manned free balloon, production certificate and type certificate see the Dictionary.

21.825  Manufacturer's data plate