---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 137.11"
title: "14"
number: "137.11"
heading: "Certificate required."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/137.11"
---

# §137.11. Certificate required.

- (a) Except as provided in paragraphs [(c)](#c) and [(d)](#d) of this section, no person may conduct agricultural aircraft operations without, or in violation of, an agricultural aircraft operator certificate issued under this part.
- (b) Notwithstanding [part 133](/cfr/14/part133.md) of this chapter, an operator may, if he complies with this part, conduct agricultural aircraft operations with a rotorcraft with external dispensing equipment in place without a rotorcraft external-load operator certificate.
- (c) A Federal, State, or local government conducting agricultural aircraft operations with public aircraft need not comply with this subpart.
- (d) The holder of a rotorcraft external-load operator certificate under [part 133](/cfr/14/part133.md) of this chapter conducting an agricultural aircraft operation, involving only the dispensing of water on forest fires by rotorcraft external-load means, need not comply with this subpart.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Docket 1464, 30 FR 8106, June 24, 1965, as amended by Amdt. 137-3, 33 FR 9601, July 2, 1968; Amdt. 137-6, 41 FR 35060, Aug. 19, 1976]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40103, 40113, 44701-44702.

### Source

Source: Docket 1464, 30 FR 8106, June 24, 1965, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Docket 1464, 30 FR 8106, June 24, 1965, as amended by Amdt. 137-3, 33 FR 9601, July 2, 1968; Amdt. 137-6, 41 FR 35060, Aug. 19, 1976]