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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

§ 119.5 

(5) Requirements for obtaining devi-

ation authority to perform operations 
under a military contract and obtain-
ing deviation authority to perform an 
emergency operation; and 

(6) Requirements for management 

personnel for operations conducted 
under part 121 or part 135 of this chap-
ter. 

(c) Persons subject to this part must 

comply with the other requirements of 
this chapter, except where those re-
quirements are modified by or where 
additional requirements are imposed 
by part 119, 121, 125, or 135 of this chap-
ter. 

(d) This part does not govern oper-

ations conducted under part 91, subpart 
K (when common carriage is not in-
volved) nor does it govern operations 
conducted under part 129, 133, 137, or 
139 of this chapter. 

(e) Except for operations when com-

mon carriage is not involved conducted 
with airplanes having a passenger-seat 
configuration of 20 seats or more, ex-
cluding any required crewmember seat, 
or a payload capacity of 6,000 pounds or 
more, this part does not apply to— 

(1) Student instruction; 
(2) Nonstop Commercial Air Tours 

conducted after September 11, 2007, in 
an airplane or helicopter having a 
standard airworthiness certificate and 
passenger-seat configuration of 30 seats 
or fewer and a maximum payload ca-
pacity of 7,500 pounds or less that begin 
and end at the same airport, and are 
conducted within a 25-statute mile ra-
dius of that airport, in compliance with 
the Letter of Authorization issued 
under § 91.147 of this chapter. For non-
stop Commercial Air Tours conducted 
in accordance with part 136, subpart B 
of this chapter, National Parks Air 
Tour Management, the requirements of 
part 119 of this chapter apply unless ex-
cepted in § 136.37(g)(2). For Nonstop 
Commercial Air Tours conducted in the 
vicinity of the Grand Canyon National 
Park, Arizona, the requirements of 
SFAR 50–2, part 93, subpart U, and part 
119 of this chapter, as applicable, apply. 

(3) Ferry or training flights; 
(4) Aerial work operations, includ-

ing— 

(i) Crop dusting, seeding, spraying, 

and bird chasing; 

(ii) Banner towing; 

(iii) Aerial photography or survey; 
(iv) Fire fighting; 
(v) Helicopter operations in construc-

tion or repair work (but it does apply 
to transportation to and from the site 
of operations); and 

(vi) Powerline or pipeline patrol; 
(5) Sightseeing flights conducted in 

hot air balloons; 

(6) Nonstop flights conducted within 

a 25-statute-mile radius of the airport 
of takeoff carrying persons or objects 
for the purpose of conducting inten-
tional parachute operations. 

(7) Helicopter flights conducted with-

in a 25 statute mile radius of the air-
port of takeoff if— 

(i) Not more than two passengers are 

carried in the helicopter in addition to 
the required flightcrew; 

(ii) Each flight is made under day 

VFR conditions; 

(iii) The helicopter used is certifi-

cated in the standard category and 
complies with the 100-hour inspection 
requirements of part 91 of this chapter; 

(iv) The operator notifies the respon-

sible Flight Standards office at least 72 
hours before each flight and furnishes 
any essential information that the of-
fice requests; 

(v) The number of flights does not ex-

ceed a total of six in any calendar year; 

(vi) Each flight has been approved by 

the Administrator; and 

(vii) Cargo is not carried in or on the 

helicopter; 

(8) Operations conducted under part 

133 of this chapter or 375 of this title; 

(9) Emergency mail service con-

ducted under 49 U.S.C. 41906; 

(10) Operations conducted under the 

provisions of § 91.321 of this chapter; or 

(11) Small UAS operations conducted 

under part 107 of this chapter. 

[Doc. No. 28154, 60 FR 65913, Dec. 20, 1995, as 
amended by Amdt. 119–4, 66 FR 23557, May 9, 
2001; Amdt. 119–5, 67 FR 9554, Mar. 1, 2002; 
Amdt. 119–7, 68 FR 54584, Sept. 17, 2003; 72 FR 
6911, Feb. 13, 2007; Docket FAA–2015–0150, 
Amdt. 119–18, 81 FR 42214, June 28, 2016; 
Docket FAA–2018–0119, Amdt. 119–19, 83 FR 
9172, Mar. 5, 2018] 

§ 119.3

[Reserved] 

§ 119.5

Certifications, authorizations, 

and prohibitions. 

(a) A person authorized by the Ad-

ministrator to conduct operations as a 

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