This order provides guidance to FAA personnel responsible for evaluating aircraft wreckage and
classifying an aircraft as destroyed or scrapped. This order also provides guidance related to
actions that are required to be taken when an aircraft is determined to be destroyed or scrapped.
Such actions include the disposition of aircraft identification plates, aircraft de-registration, and
compliance with aircraft recordkeeping requirements. It addresses the re-registration of aircraft
that may have previously been classified as destroyed or scrapped and describes the procedures a
person may use to dispute a determination that an aircraft has been destroyed or scrapped.
Many current FAA and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) forms classify aircraft
damage as minor, major, substantial, or indicate that an aircraft has been destroyed. Title 14 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) § 47.41a(2) specifies that an aircraft’s Certificate of
Registration, AC Form 8050-3, is no longer effective if the aircraft is “totally destroyed or
scrapped.” In this order, we consider the report of a “destroyed aircraft” the same as an aircraft
reported as “totally destroyed.”
This order provides instructions for FAA employees to assist aircraft owners in complying with
the requirements of 14 CFR §§ 45.13 and 47.41 by specifying what constitutes a destroyed or
scrapped aircraft and by establishing procedures to properly disposition aircraft wreckage.
This order also sets forth a process for a person to dispute a determination that an aircraft has been
destroyed or scrapped.

This advisory circular (AC) provides acceptable means for showing compliance with the
requirements of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) 23.1301, amendment 23-62 or
earlier, 25.1301, 27.1301, and 29.1301 (herein, collectively, 2X.1301), Function and installation,
with regard to fire extinguishing or suppression systems that contain electrical firing cartridge
components

This advisory circular (AC) emphasizes the safety hazards of poorly maintained
aircraft exhaust systems (reciprocating powerplants) and highlights points at which exhaust
system failures occur. Further, it provides information on the types of problems to expect and
recommends that pilots perform ongoing preventive maintenance and that mechanics perform
maintenance.

This AC provides guidance in developing an anticollision light maintenance program.

Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR):

• Part 21, Certification Procedures for Products and Articles
• Part 23, Airworthiness Standards: Normal Category Airplanes
• Part 25, Airworthiness Standards: Transport Category Airplanes
• Part 27, Airworthiness Standards: Normal Category Rotorcraft
• Part 29, Airworthiness Standards: Transport Category Rotorcraft
• Part 91, General Operating and Flight Rules

AC 20-30, Aircraft Position Light and Anticollision Light Installations.
AC 20-74, Aircraft Position and Anticollision Light Measurement

This notice provides guidance on the removal of geographic
limitations for all Flight Standards Service (FS) Designated Pilot Examiners (DPE). This notice
identifies additional procedures for FS offices managing DPEs