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Special Airworthiness Certificate
Special Airworthiness Certificate | | A special airworthiness certificate is an airworthiness certificate that is not sufficient to allow an aircraft to be used in commercial passenger or cargo operations. In the USA a special airworthiness certificate is issued in one or more of the following categories: - Primary - Aircraft flown for pleasure and personal use
- Restricted - Aircraft with a "restricted" category type certificate, including:
- Agricultural
- Forest and wildlife conservation
- Aerial surveying
- Patrolling (pipelines, power lines)
- Weather control
- Aerial advertising
- Other operations specified by the Administrator
- Multiple - Multiple airworthiness certificates
- Limited - Multiple airworthiness certificates
- Light-Sport - Operate a light-sport aircraft, other than a gyroplane, kit-built, or transitioning ultralight like vehicle
- Experimental
- Research and development - an aircraft whose purpose is to test new design concepts, equipment, or operating techniques
- Showing compliance with regulations - a prototype aircraft that is built for the purposes of demonstrating the airworthiness of a design
- Crew training - an aircraft used solely for training that, for some reason, does not have a standard certificate (e.g. the NASA Shuttle Training Aircraft)
- Exhibition
- Air racing
- Market surveys - a sales demonstration aircraft
- Operating amateur-built aircraft
- Operating kit-built aircraft
- Operating light-sport aircraft
- Unmanned Aircraft Systems
- Special Flight Permit - Special-purpose flight of an aircraft that is capable of safe flight
- Provisional - Aircraft with a "provisional" category type certificate for special operations and operating limitations
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