Section 129.13

14 CFR Ch. I (1-1-19 Edition)

unless the responsible Flight Standards
office has found, under paragraph (g) of
this section, that an emergency exists
requiring immediate action with respect to safety in air transportation or
air commerce.
(g) If the responsible Flight Standards office finds that an emergency exists requiring immediate action with
respect to safety in air commerce or
air transportation that makes the procedures set out in this section impracticable or contrary to the public interest, that office may make the amendment, suspension or termination effective on the day the foreign air carrier
or foreign person receives notice of it.
In the notice to the foreign air carrier
or foreign person, the responsible
Flight Standards office will articulate
the reasons for its finding that an
emergency exists requiring immediate
action with respect to safety in air
transportation or air commerce or that
makes it impracticable or contrary to
the public interest to stay the effectiveness of the amendment, suspension
or termination.
[Doc. No. FAA-2009-0140, 76 FR 7490, Feb. 10,
2011, as amended by Docket FAA-2018-0119,
Amdt. 129-53, 83 FR 9174, Mar. 5, 2018]

Section 129.13 Airworthiness
tion certificates.

and

registra-

(a) No foreign air carrier may operate
any aircraft within the United States
unless that aircraft carries a current
registration certificate and displays
the nationality and registration markings of the State of Registry, and an
airworthiness certificate issued or validated by:
(1) The State of Registry; or
(2) The State of the Operator, provided that the State of the Operator
and the State of Registry have entered
into an agreement under Article 83bis
of the Convention on International
Civil Aviation that covers the aircraft.
(b) No foreign air carrier may operate
a foreign aircraft within the United
States except in accordance with the
limitations on maximum certificated
weights prescribed for that aircraft and

that operation by the country of manufacture of the aircraft.
[Doc. No. 1994, 29 FR 1720, Feb. 5, 1964, as
amended by Amdt. 129-33, 67 FR 42455, June
21, 2002; Amdt. 129-49, 76 FR 7490, Feb. 10,
2011]

Section 129.14 Maintenance program and
minimum equipment list requirements for U.S.-registered aircraft.
(a) Each foreign air carrier and each
foreign person operating a U.S.-registered aircraft within or outside the
United States in common carriage
must ensure that each aircraft is maintained in accordance with a program
approved by the Administrator in the
operations specifications.
(b) No foreign air carrier or foreign
person may operate a U.S.-registered
aircraft with inoperable instruments or
equipment unless the following conditions are met:
(1) A master minimum equipment list
exists for the aircraft type.
(2) The foreign operator submits for
review and approval its aircraft minimum equipment list based on the master minimum equipment list, to the responsible Flight Standards office for
the operator. The foreign operator
must show, before minimum equipment
list approval can be obtained, that the
maintenance procedures used under its
maintenance program are adequate to
support the use of its minimum equipment list.
(3) For leased aircraft maintained
and operated under a U.S. operator-s
continuous airworthiness maintenance
program and FAA-approved minimum
equipment list, the foreign operator
submits the U.S. operator-s approved
continuous airworthiness maintenance
program and approved aircraft minimum equipment list to the FAA office
prescribed in paragraph (b)(2) of this
section for review and evaluation. The
foreign operator must show that it is
capable of operating under the lessor-s
approved maintenance program and
that it is also capable of meeting the
maintenance and operational requirements specified in the lessor-s approved
minimum equipment list.
(4) The FAA operations specification
permitting the operator to use an approved minimum equipment list is carried aboard the aircraft. An approved

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