Special Airworthiness Certificate

Special Flight Permit

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A special flight permit may be issued for an aircraft that may not currently meet applicable airworthiness requirements, but is capable of safe flight, for the following purposes:

• Flying aircraft to a point for repairs, alterations, maintenance, or storage.
• Delivering new aircraft to the base of a purchaser or to a storage point.
• Conducting production flight tests.
• Evacuating an aircraft from impending danger.
• Conducting customer demonstration flights in new production aircraft that have passed or completed production flight tests.
• Excess weight operations.

The special flight permit does not authorize flight over a country other than the United States without permission of that country.

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