---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 119.23"
title: "14"
number: "119.23"
heading: "Operators engaged in passenger-carrying operations, cargo operations, or both with airplanes or powered-lift when common carriage is not involved."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/119.23"
---

# §119.23. Operators engaged in passenger-carrying operations, cargo operations, or both with airplanes or powered-lift when common carriage is not involved.

- (a) Each person who conducts operations when common carriage is not involved with any airplane or powered-lift having a passenger-seat configuration of 20 seats or more, excluding each crewmember seat, or a payload capacity of 6,000 pounds or more, must, unless deviation authority is issued—
  - (1) Comply with the certification and operations specifications requirements of [part 125](/cfr/14/part125.md) of this chapter;
  - (2) Conduct its operations in accordance with the requirements of [part 125](/cfr/14/part125.md) of this chapter; and
  - (3) **Be issued operations specifications in accordance with those requirements.**
- (b) Each person who conducts noncommon carriage (except as provided in [§ 91.501(b)](/cfr/14/91.501.md?p=b) of this chapter) or private carriage operations for compensation or hire with any airplane or powered-lift having a passenger-seat configuration of less than 20 seats, excluding each crewmember seat, and a payload capacity of less than 6,000 pounds, must—
  - (1) Comply with the certification and operations specifications requirements in subpart C of this part;
  - (2) Conduct those operations in accordance with the requirements of [part 135](/cfr/14/part135.md) of this chapter, except for those requirements applicable only to commuter operations; and
  - (3) **Be issued operations specifications in accordance with those requirements.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[Docket 28154, 60 FR 65913, Dec. 20, 1995, as amended by Amdt. 119-2, 61 FR 30434, June 14, 1996; Docket FAA-2022-1563, Amdt. 119-20, 88 FR 48089, July 26, 2023]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40101, 40102, 40103, 40113, 44105, 44106, 44111, 44701-44717, 44722, 44901, 44903, 44904, 44906, 44912, 44914, 44936, 44938, 46103, 46105; sec. 215, Pub. L. 111-216, 124 Stat. 2348.

### Source

Source: Docket 28154, 60 FR 65913, Dec. 20, 1995, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Docket 28154, 60 FR 65913, Dec. 20, 1995, as amended by Amdt. 119-2, 61 FR 30434, June 14, 1996; Docket FAA-2022-1563, Amdt. 119-20, 88 FR 48089, July 26, 2023]