---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 125.243"
title: "14"
number: "125.243"
heading: "Certificate holder's responsibilities."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/125.243"
---

# §125.243. Certificate holder's responsibilities.

- (a) With regard to airplanes, including airframes, aircraft engines, propellers, appliances, and survival and emergency equipment, operated by a certificate holder, that certificate holder is primarily responsible for—
  - (1) Airworthiness;
  - (2) The performance of maintenance, preventive maintenance, and alteration in accordance with applicable regulations and the certificate holder's manual;
  - (3) The scheduling and performance of inspections required by this part; and
  - (4) Ensuring that maintenance personnel make entries in the airplane maintenance log and maintenance records which meet the requirements of [part 43](/cfr/14/part43.md) of this chapter and the certificate holder's manual, and which indicate that the airplane has been approved for return to service after maintenance, preventive maintenance, or alteration has been performed.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40113, 44701-44702, 44705, 44710-44711, 44713, 44716-44717, 44722.

### Source

Source: Docket 19779, 45 FR 67235, Oct. 9, 1980, unless otherwise noted.