Originally Posted by Island Flyer
The maximum seats for scheduled air service under FAR 135 is 9 or less. Air carriers operating 19-seat aircraft must be certificated under FAR 121. This went into effect in 1997.
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1. Persons (and I’m using the word “persons” in the regulatory sense) desiring to operate, or who are operating, civil aircraft as an air carrier or commercial operator are certificated under 14CFR part 119 (“Certification: Air Carriers and Commercial Operators”) not “FAR 121.”
2. The actual use of “FAR” happens to be the shortened reference for the “Federal Acquisition Regulations” which has nothing to do with airplanes, pilots, or anything of the sort.
3. 14CFR part 121 is entitled “Operating Requirements: Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations;” and
4. 14CFR part 135 is entitled “Operating Requirements: Commuter and On Demand Operations and Rules Governing Persons On Board Such Aircraft.”
5. Part 135 applies to those persons who were either issued an air carrier or an operating certificate and operations specifications under the requirements of part 135 or under SFAR No. 38–2 of 14CFR part 121 before January 19, 1996, or those persons who, after this date, applied for, applies for, or obtains an initial air carrier or operating certificate and operations specifications to conduct scheduled passenger carrying operations, and uses or expects to use an airplane belonging to one of the following groupings for scheduled passenger-carrying operations:
a) Nontransport category turbopropeller powered airplanes type certificated after December 31, 1964, that have a passenger seat configuration of 10–19 seats;
b) Transport category turbopropeller powered airplanes that have a passenger seat configuration of 20–30 seats; or
c) Turbojet engine powered airplanes having a passenger seat configuration of 1–30 seats.
6. Part 121 applies to those persons who hold or are required to hold an air carrier certificate or an operating certificate engaging or planning to engage in domestic, flag, or supplemental operations.