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Section 48.10

PART
48 - REGISTRATION
AND
MARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR
SMALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT
Subpart A - General
Sec.
48.1 Applicability.
48.5 Compliance dates.
48.10 Definitions.
48.15 Requirement to register.
48.20 Eligibility for registration.
48.25 Applicants.
48.30 Fees.

Section 48.5

Subpart B - Certificates of Aircraft
Registration for Small Unmanned Aircraft
48.100 Application.
48.105 Requirement to maintain current information.
48.110 Registration: Persons intending to
use small unmanned aircraft for purposes
other than as model aircraft.
48.115 Registration: Individuals intending to
use the small unmanned aircraft exclusively as a model aircraft.
48.120 Invalid registration.
48.125 Foreign civil aircraft.

Subpart C - Aircraft Marking
48.200 General.
48.205 Display and location of unique identifier.
AUTHORITY: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40101,
40103, 40113-40114, 41703, 44101-44103, 44105-
44106, 44110-44113, 45302, 45305, 46104, 46301,
46306.
SOURCE: Doc. No. FAA-2015-7396; Amdt. No.
48-1; 80 FR 78645, Dec. 16, 2015, unless otherwise noted.

Subpart A - General

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Section 48.1

(c) Small unmanned aircraft intended
to be operated outside of the territorial
airspace of the United States, or registered through a trust or voting trust,
must be registered in accordance with
subparts A and B of part 47 and satisfy
the identification and registration
marking requirements of subparts A
and C of part 45.

Applicability.

(a) This part provides registration
and identification requirements for
small unmanned aircraft that are part
of a small unmanned aircraft system as
defined in Section 1.1 of this chapter.
(b) Small unmanned aircraft eligible
for registration in the United States
must be registered and identified in accordance with either:
(1) The registration and identification requirements in this part; or
(2) The registration requirements in
part 47 and the identification and registration marking requirements in subparts A and C of part 45.

Compliance dates.

(a) Small unmanned aircraft used exclusively as model aircraft. For small unmanned aircraft operated by the current owner prior to December 21, 2015,
compliance with the requirements of
this part or part 47 is required no later
than February 19, 2016. For all other
small unmanned aircraft, compliance
with this part is required prior to operation of the small unmanned aircraft.
(b) Small unmanned aircraft used as
other than model aircraft. Small unmanned aircraft owners authorized to
conduct operations other than model
aircraft operations must register the
small unmanned aircraft in accordance
with part 47 of this chapter. Beginning
March 31, 2016, small unmanned aircraft operated as other than model aircraft may complete aircraft registration in accordance with this part.
Section 48.10

Definitions.

For purposes of this part, the following definitions apply:
Citizen of the United States or U.S. citizen means one of the following:
(1) An individual who is a citizen of
the United States or one of its possessions.
(2) A partnership each of whose partners is an individual who is a citizen of
the United States.
(3) A corporation or association organized under the laws of the United
States or a State, the District of Columbia, or a territory or possession of
the United States, of which the president and at least two-thirds of the
board of directors and other managing
officers are citizens of the United
States, which is under the actual control of citizens of the United States,
and in which at least 75 percent of the
voting interest is owned or controlled
by persons that are citizens of the
United States.

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