CODE OF VIRGINIA

LICENSING OF AIRCRAFT (§ 5.1-5)

(a. Every resident of this Commonwealth owning a civil aircraft, every
nonresident owning a civil aircraft based in this Commonwealth over sixty days
during any twelve-month period and every owner of an aerial application aircraft
operating within this Commonwealth or of a civil aircraft operated in this
Commonwealth as a for-hire intrastate air carrier shall, before the same is
operated in this Commonwealth, obtain from the Department an aircraft license
for such aircraft.

(b. The Department shall provide for the issuance, expiration, suspension and
revocation of licenses of aircraft in accordance with regulations promulgated by
the Board. The Department shall furnish any necessary forms pursuant to the
issuance of such licenses, and may assess a fee for such issuance not in excess
of five dollars annually. The Department may in lieu of issuing aircraft
licenses required by subsection (a) of this section, issue commercial aircraft
licenses to air carriers and commercial dealers, and issue to noncommercial
dealers noncommercial dealer fleet licenses, to cover all aircraft owned by such
dealers and all aircraft for sale held by dealers on a consignment basis from an
aircraft manufacturer. The Department may assess a fee not in excess of $ 50
annually for any such noncommercial dealer fleet licenses issued and a fee not
in excess of $ 100 annually for any such commercial fleet licenses issued. The
fee for a commercial single aircraft license shall not be in excess of ten
dollars annually.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 5-5; 1966, c. 576; 1970, c. 717; 1974, c. 431; 1979, c.
272; 1980, c. 721.