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CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 21.820

Manufacturer's data plate must be attached to aircraft

  (1)   This regulation sets out the requirements for attaching a manufacturer's data plate to an aircraft to which this Division applies.

  (2)   The manufacturer of an aircraft to which this Division applies must attach to it, as set out in subregulations (3) and (4), a fireproof manufacturer's data plate bearing the following information:

  (a)   the name of the manufacturer;

  (b)   the identification number of the aircraft's type certificate (if any);

  (c)   the identification number of the production certificate (if any) under which the aircraft is manufactured;

  (d)   the aircraft's model designation;

  (e)   the aircraft's serial number.

Penalty:   20 penalty units.

  (2A)   An offence against subregulation   (2) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:   For strict liability , see section   6.1 of the Criminal Code .

  (3)   The data plate must be attached in a way that ensures that it is not likely to be defaced or removed during normal service, nor lost or destroyed in an accident.

  (4)   The data plate must be attached:

  (a)   to a manned free balloon--to the lower section of the balloon's envelope in a place where the operator can read it when the balloon is inflated; or

  (b)   to a glider--in a visible place inside the cockpit; or

  (c)   to any other aircraft--in a place where it is clearly legible:

  (i)   on the frame of the aircraft's rearmost entrance; or

  (ii)   near, but aft of, the aircraft's rearmost entrance; or

  (iii)   on the aircraft's fuselage near its tail.

Note:   For the definition of aircraft see section   3 of the Act.   For the definitions of identification number , manned free balloon , production certificate and type certificate see the Dictionary.


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