---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 105.49"
title: "14"
number: "105.49"
heading: "Foreign parachutists and equipment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/105.49"
---

# §105.49. Foreign parachutists and equipment.

- (a) No person may conduct a parachute operation, and no pilot in command of an aircraft may allow a parachute operation to be conducted from that aircraft with an unapproved foreign parachute system unless—
  - (1) **The parachute system is worn by a foreign parachutist who is the owner of that system.**
  - (2) **The parachute system is of a single-harness dual parachute type.**
  - (3) The parachute system meets the civil aviation authority requirements of the foreign parachutist's country.
  - (4) All foreign non-approved parachutes deployed by a foreign parachutist during a parachute operation conducted under this section shall be packed as follows—
    - (i) The main parachute must be packed by the foreign parachutist making the next parachute jump with that parachute, a certificated parachute rigger, or any other person acceptable to the Administrator.
    - (ii) The reserve parachute must be packed in accordance with the foreign parachutist's civil aviation authority requirements, by a certificated parachute rigger, or any other person acceptable to the Administrator.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113-40114, 44701-44702, 44721.

### Source

Source: Docket FAA-1999-5483, 66 FR 23553, May 9, 2001, unless otherwise noted.