Regulations last checked for updates: May 03, 2025

Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space last revised: Apr 02, 2025
§ 129.20 - Digital flight data recorders.

No person may operate an aircraft under this part that is registered in the United States unless it is equipped with one or more approved flight recorders that use a digital method of recording and storing data and a method of readily retrieving that data from the storage medium. The flight data recorder must record the parameters that would be required to be recorded if the aircraft were operated under part 121, 125, or 135 of this chapter, and must be installed by the compliance times required by those parts, as applicable to the aircraft.

[Docket 28109, 62 FR 38396, July 17, 1997]
source: Docket 1994, 29 FR 1720, Feb. 5, 1964, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 14 CFR 129.20