PART 3 U.K.Emissions Certification for [F1 Non-Part 21] aircraft

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Pt. 3 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Aviation Noise (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/643), regs. 1(2), 3(14); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Fuel venting requirements U.K.

14.—(1) This article applies to—

(a) every [F2 non-Part 21] jet aircraft in respect of which a certificate of airworthiness was first issued on or after 18th February 1982; and

(b) every other [F2 non-Part 21] aircraft which is powered by one or more turbojet engines or turbofan engines where the date of manufacture of any such engine was on or after 18th February 1982.

(2) Subject to article 18, an aircraft to which this article applies must not land or take off in the United Kingdom unless—

(a) it has individually been certified or is of a type which has been certified, in accordance with article 17, as complying with the requirements relating to fuel venting specified in paragraph (3); and

(b) it is fitted with the engines specified in the emissions certification issued under article 17.

(3) The requirements referred to in paragraph (2) are that when fitted with the type of engine specified in the emissions certification issued under article 17, the aircraft is designed and constructed to prevent the intentional discharge into the atmosphere of liquid fuel from the fuel nozzle manifolds resulting from the process of engine shutdown following normal flight or ground operations.

Textual Amendments

F2 Words in arts. 14-17 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Aviation Noise (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/643), regs. 1(2), 3(15); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)