---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 135.149"
title: "14"
number: "135.149"
heading: "Equipment requirements: General."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/135.149"
---

# §135.149. Equipment requirements: General.


No person may operate an aircraft unless it is equipped with—

- (a) A sensitive altimeter that is adjustable for barometric pressure;
- (b) Heating or deicing equipment for each carburetor or, for a pressure carburetor, an alternate air source;
- (c) For turbojet airplanes, in addition to two gyroscopic bank-and-pitch indicators (artificial horizons) for use at the pilot stations, a third indicator that is installed in accordance with the instrument requirements prescribed in [§ 121.305(j)](/cfr/14/121.305.md?p=j) of this chapter.
- (d) [Reserved]
- (e) For turbine powered aircraft, any other equipment as the Administrator may require.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Docket 16097, 43 FR 46783, Oct. 10, 1978, as amended by Amdt. 135-1, 44 FR 26737, May 7, 1979; Amdt. 135-34, 54 FR 43926, Oct. 27, 1989; Amdt. 135-38, 55 FR 43310, Oct. 26, 1990]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 41706, 44701-44702, 44705, 44709, 44711-44713, 44715-44717, 44722, 44730, 45101-45105; Pub. L. 112-95, 126 Stat. 58 (49 U.S.C. 44730).

### Source

Source: Docket 16097, 43 FR 46783, Oct. 10, 1978, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Docket 16097, 43 FR 46783, Oct. 10, 1978, as amended by Amdt. 135-1, 44 FR 26737, May 7, 1979; Amdt. 135-34, 54 FR 43926, Oct. 27, 1989; Amdt. 135-38, 55 FR 43310, Oct. 26, 1990]