Aviation
6. Registering an Aircraft
Authors: Staff Legal Eagle
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Last updated: 22 Jun 2015
- According to the Convention on International Civil Aviation 1944 (Chicago Convention) an aircraft takes on the nationality of the country in which it is registered.
- To comply with Commonwealth civil aviation regulations an Australian aircraft must display the Australian nationality mark and a registration mark.
- The Australian nationality mark is the capital letters ‘VH.’
- The registration mark is the group of characters that is reserved for each specific aircraft.
- You cannot fly an aircraft within Australian territory unless the aircraft is registered with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).
- A registration made following your oral application will lapse unless CASA receives written confirmation from you within 14 days of your oral application. Where an aircraft is registered for a particular period the registration lapses at the end of that period. Otherwise registration continues in force until it is cancelled.
- CASA may also cancel the registration of your aircraft if you do not comply with a request to give information to CASA to verify the accuracy of the Australian civil aircraft register.
- You are prohibited from flying your aircraft unless it has a current certificate of airworthiness or you have been specifically authorised by CASA to commence flight without the certificate.
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