Regulations last checked for updates: Dec 17, 2025

Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space last revised: Nov 03, 2025
§ 121.205 - Nontransport category airplanes: Landing limitations: Alternate airport.

No person may list an airport as an alternate airport in a dispatch or flight release for a nontransport category airplane unless that airplane (at the weight anticipated at the time of arrival) based on the assumptions contained in § 121.203, can be brought to a full stop landing within 70 percent of the effective length of the runway.

cite as: 14 CFR 121.205