14 CFR 27.969 - Fuel tank expansion space.

Regulations last checked for updates: Oct 17, 2024

Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space last revised: Oct 08, 2024

View all text of Subpart E [§ 27.901 - § 27.1195]

§ 27.969 - Fuel tank expansion space.

Each fuel tank or each group of fuel tanks with interconnected vent systems must have an expansion space of not less than 2 percent of the tank capacity. It must be impossible to fill the fuel tank expansion space inadvertently with the rotorcraft in the normal ground attitude.

[Amdt. 27-23, 53 FR 34213, Sept. 2, 1988]

authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40113, 44701-44702, 44704

source: Docket No. 5074, 29 FR 15695, Nov. 24, 1964, unless otherwise noted.

cite as: 14 CFR 27.969