21.A.701 Scope

(a)     Permits to fly shall be issued in accordance with this Subpart to aircraft that do not meet, or have not been shown to meet, applicable airworthiness requirements but are capable of safe flight under defined conditions and for the following purposes:

1.       development;

2.       showing compliance with regulations or certification specifications;

3.       design organisations or production organisations crew training;

4.       production flight testing of new production aircraft;

5.       flying aircraft under production between production facilities;

6.       flying the aircraft for customer acceptance;

7.       delivering or exporting the aircraft;

8.       flying the aircraft for Authority acceptance;

9.       market survey, including customer’s crew training;

10.     exhibition and air show;

11.     flying the aircraft to a location where maintenance or airworthiness review are to be performed, or to a place of storage;

12.     flying an aircraft at a weight in excess of its maximum certificated takeoff weight for flight beyond the normal range over water, or over land areas where adequate landing facilities or appropriate fuel is not available;

13.     record breaking, air racing or similar competition;

14.     flying aircraft meeting the applicable airworthiness requirements before conformity to the environmental requirements has been found;

15.     for non-commercial flying activity on individual non-complex aircraft or types for which a certificate of airworthiness or restricted certificate of airworthiness is not appropriate.

16.     flying an aircraft for troubleshooting purposes or to check the functioning of one or more systems, parts or appliances after maintenance.

(b)     This Subpart establishes the procedure for issuing permits to fly and approving associated flight conditions, and establishes the rights and obligations of the applicants for, and holders of, those permits and approvals of flight conditions.