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Inspections and tests.

5.16 Flight tests.

5.17 Airworthiness, experimental, and production certificates.

5.18 Approval of materials, parts, processes, and appliances.

5.19 Changes in type design.

AUTHORITY: §§ 5.0 to 5.19 issued under sec. 205, 52 Stat. 984, as amended; 49 U. S. C. 425. Interpret or apply secs. 601, 603, 52 Stat. 1007, as amended, 1009, as amended; 49 U. S. C. 551, 553.

SOURCE: 5.0 to 5.19 appear at 21 F. R. 1088, Feb. 17, 1956, except as otherwise noted. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS

§ 5.0 Applicability of this part.

This part establishes standards with which compliance shall be demonstrated for the issuance of and changes to type certificates for gliders. This part, until superseded or rescinded, shall apply to all gliders for which applications for type certification are made after the effective date of this part (March 5, 1952). § 5.1

Definitions.

As used in this part terms are defined as follows:

(a) Administration—(1) Administrator. The Administrator is the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency.

(2) Applicant. An applicant is a person or persons applying for approval of a glider or any part thereof.

(3) Approved. Approved, when used alone or as modifying terms such as means, devices, specifications, etc., means approved by the Administrator. (See § 5.18.)

(b) General design-(1) Glider. A glider is a heavier-than-air aircraft the free flight of which does not depend principally upon a power generating unit.

[21 F.R. 1088, Feb. 17, 1956, as amended, 24 F.R. 5, Jan. 1, 1959]

§ 5.10 Eligibility for type certificates.

A glider shall be eligible for type certification under the provisions of this part if it complies with the airworthiness provisions of Part 3 of this subchapter modified to the extent the Administrator finds appropriate for gliders: Provided, That the Administrator finds no feature or characteristic of the glider which renders it unsafe.

§ 5.11 Designation of applicable regu

lations.

The provisions of this section shall apply to all glider types certificated under this part irrespective of the date of application for type certificate.

(a) Unless otherwise established by the Administrator, the glider shall comply with the provisions of this part together with all amendments thereto effective on the date of application for type certificate, except that compliance with later effective amendments may be elected or required pursuant to paragraphs (c), (d), and (e) of this section.

(b) If the interval between the date of application for type certificate and the issuance of the corresponding type certificate exceeds three years, a new application for type certificate shall be required, except that for applications pending on May 1, 1954, such three-year period shall commence on that date. At the option of the applicant, a new application may be filed prior to the expiration of the three-year period. In either instance the applicable regulations shall be those effective on the date of the new application in accordance with paragraph (a) of this section.

(c) During the interval between filing the application and the issuance of a type certificate, the applicant may elect to show compliance with any amendment of this part which becomes effective during that interval, in which case all other amendments found by the Administrator to be directly related shall be complied with.

(d) Except as otherwise provided by the Administrator pursuant to § 1.24 of this subchapter, a change to the type certificate (see § 5.13(b)) may be accomplished, at the option of the holder of the type certificate, either in accordance with the regulations incorporated by reference in the type certificate pur

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